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Re:There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014) by cle on Sunday October 11, 2020 @10:06PM (#24750804)
You still have to reason through “what if it collides with the real hash function?” How do you know it will behave the same if you don’t test it?

(I can sympathize with both approaches and don’t think either one is better.)

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