Subj : Re: Generating an Index
To   : comp.programming
From : Willem
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 07:40 am

Wavemaker wrote:
) Hmm, I've thought about this and was about to suggest using 10101010... 
) as a reference value and calculating the distance of each item in 
) reference to that value.

There is no reason whatsoever why 10101010... would be a better reference
value than 00000000... would be.  To see this, you have to realise that
XORing all numbers with a given pattern will not change the relative
distances of any two numbers.


SaSW, Willem
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