You've got a picture of somebody's face, it's a million pixels. Each pixel has a range of values from zero to 256. I want to hash a face with some function into an integer.

你有一个人的脸部照片，它有一百万个像素,每个像素的值范围在0到256之间,我想用某个函数将一张脸部照片。

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So, what's the idea? If I know what my hash function does, it maps, in this case characters into a range zero to 256, which is zero to 255, I create a list that long, and I simply mark things.

我知道我的哈希函数做什么,在这个例子中，它将字母，映射成0到255的256个数字，我创建了一个这么长的列表，并且我只是简单的标志这些东西。

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