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Re:Breaking a Toy Hash Function by dashN9ne on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @01:18PM (#5979293)
I've not heard the term 'HOF' before and didn't find it/expand it with a cursory search. Could you define/expand it?
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Re:Breaking a Toy Hash Function by lucian1900 on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @01:29PM (#5979377)
I had (mistakenly) thought it's a commonly known term.

Wikipedia explains it better than I could http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_function

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