On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Coe, Robin <robin.coe@bluecoat.com> wrote:
> I'd love to see this document grow as time permits, to include known
> caveats, hidden features, tweaks, etc. Perhaps, with some common use
> cases to help elucidate the content?
My writing well is exhausted for now but that's the nice thing about wikis... :)
> One question, though. I thought I read about using an initial token for
> a RandmizedPartioner of between 0 and 127, but in your write-up, you say
> the value should be i * (2**127 / N) for i = 1 .. N. That's a slightly
> larger number. Can you clarify?
2**127 is correct (since MD5 is a 128-bit hash).
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