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Re:GxHash is a fast and robust non-cryptographic hashing alg... by airstrike on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:22PM (#40348637) 

    oncogene's <> counterclaiming

    ingrates <> toadstool's

    Carib's <> stemming
all 3 pairs have one word ending in "'s", which I think is what the GGGP (?) was pointing out
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Re:GxHash is a fast and robust non-cryptographic hashing alg... by bravura on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:40PM (#40348830)
Yes. But I didn't realize that 43% of the words in that dictionary contain "'s".

In that case, the probability that, for 3 collisions, there is at least one element in every collision contains "'s" is 31%. That seems reasonable to me.

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Re:GxHash is a fast and robust non-cryptographic hashing alg... by airstrike on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:04PM (#40349062)
but 43% of the words contain s, not 's
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