Meanings
nounRabin fingerprint (plural Rabin fingerprints)
plural Rabin fingerprints
- mathematicsA fingerprint using polynomials over a finite field.
We use a 40 bit fingerprint function, based on Rabin fingerprints [7], enhanced to behave as a random permutation.
1997 September 1, Andrei Z. Broder, Steven C. Glassman, Mark S. Manasse, Geoffrey Zweig, “Syntactic clustering of the Web”, in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems (Papers from the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference), volume 29, number 8, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1157–1166
Origin
Named after Israeli mathematician Michael O. Rabin (1931–).
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