From: Christoph Rippel <crippel@...>
Date: 2001-01-03T06:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8539] Re: speedup of anagram finder

> This allows us to come up with a hashing function using floating
> point numbers.  The only issue is what point we will get into
> pain from round-off errors.
Actually round-off errors are a major issue (in theory and practice) -
floating point arithmetic is not associative - this idea breaks down  if
words.lenght > 2.

Christoph