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Sounds promising. Little bit concerned on the computational cost of hashing function. Gotta explore this option!


I wouldn't be worried about hashing, either, given you effectively want to hash a 34 bit integer to a ⌈log 4e8⌉ = 29 bit integer.

An easy way is to take a 32 to 32 bit hash (eg. http://stackoverflow.com/a/12996028/1763356), calculate

    hash(top 32 bits) ^ hash(bottom 32 bits)
and take the bottom 29 bits of that. I wouldn't be surprised if you can do this in less time than an integer division.




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