On Oct 23, 2013, at 14:34 , Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Another example of why this has more to do with the hashing of sets, than 
> underlying elements:
> => (hash #{#{1 2} 3})
> 6
> => (hash #{#{1 3} 2})
> 6

The hash-combining function for sets must be commutative. But in order for the 
hashes of #{#{1 2} 3} and #{#{1 3} 2} to be unequal, it must also be 
non-associative. That's possible, but I'm not sure what would be a good 
candidate function. Something involving averaging, perhaps?

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