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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:47:07 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi)
Cc:        ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: namei & hash functions
Message-ID:  <199704301847.LAA02492@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970430101620.17281A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from "Narvi" at Apr 30, 97 10:35:02 am

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> Nice? Well, there are *lots* of prime numbers one off from 2^n:
> 
> 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 17, 31, 61, 127, 257, 8191, 65537, 131072, 524287, etc. 

Heh.  I'm wondering how you get an integer out of log2(n) for:

	60/62 and 131071/131073

I also kind of wonder why the prime number 131072 has been so long
undiscovered...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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