> On 7 Apr 2020, at 17:47, Gilles Sadowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Le mar. 7 avr. 2020 à 14:54, Alex Herbert <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>>
>> On 07/04/2020 13:43, Alex Herbert wrote:
>>>
>>> Fraction
>>>
>>> I also did a big arrangement of Fraction and BigFraction.
>
> Thanks.
>
>>
>> I noticed that hashCode is using some variant of the format used in
>> Arrays.hashCode(...)
>>
>> I wondered if we should standardise on returning a value as if computed
>> using e.g. Arrays.hashCode(new int[]{numerator, denominator}) as was
>> done for Complex with its two parts.
>>
>> This would change in Fraction:
>>
>> public int hashCode() {
>> return 37 * (37 * 17 + numerator) + denominator;
>> }
>
> Strange that the constant 37 * 17 was not pre-computed. ;-)
Yes. Weird. It was like that in CM 3.6.1.
Not knowing if one is better than the other (do you just pick a small prime for
the factor?) I’d just shift it to use the same method as Arrays.hashCode for
consistency with Complex.
>
>>
>> to
>>
>> public int hashCode() {
>> return 31 * (31 + numerator) + denominator;
>> }
>
> +0
>
> Gilles
>
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