On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 9:25 PM Lars via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> Is there a such thing as a perfect hashlist which never has a collision, No, there are infinite possible items you can add to a haslist, but only a finite number of available hashes. It's the pigeon hole principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle -- Bart _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
