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Quote: a fingerprint is a fixed-size hash of a byte sequence

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one-way hash function
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using a description as a name
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pattern matching
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object and value equivalence

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[Vesta's] interpreter and function cache use fingerprints to … [Rabin, M.O. 1981, Broder, A. 1993]. … by choosing long enough fingerprints, the probability of … [footnote:] For safety, Vesta uses 128-bit fingerprints, making the probability of … a basis for equality tests, since we can …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: test equality of arbitrary byte sequences by testing their 128-bit fingerprints

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