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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hash collision</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hash-bucket.html" title="hash bucket"/><link rel="next" href="hat.html" title="hat"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hash collision</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hash-bucket.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hat.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hash-collision"/><dt xmlns="" id="hash-collision"><b>hash collision</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the techspeak] (var.: <span class="firstterm">hash
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clash</span>) When used of people, signifies a confusion in associative
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memory or imagination, especially a persistent one (see
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<a href="../T/thinko.html"><i class="glossterm">thinko</i></a>). True story: One of us [ESR] was once on
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the phone with a friend about to move out to Berkeley. When asked what he
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expected Berkeley to be like, the friend replied: “<span class="quote">Well, I have this
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mental picture of naked women throwing Molotov cocktails, but I think
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that's just a collision in my hash tables.</span>” Compare
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<a href="hash-bucket.html"><i class="glossterm">hash bucket</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hash-bucket.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hash bucket </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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