On Jun 5, Paul said:
>> > 3/8
>>
>> No, it means 3 out of the 8 buckets allocated have been used. This
>> doesn't tell you the number of keys, unless (by some terrible
>> misfortune) all your keys have found their way into unique buckets.
>
>Another thing -- does it always tell you how many buckets have been
>allocated? Once I thought it was simplifying the fraction, but that
>doesn't seem right....
The documentation for keys() says that it is used buckets over allocated
buckets -- so I'd say no, it's not a reduced fraction.
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