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Rabin fingerprint

Rabin fingerprint noun: a fingerprint using polynomials over a finite field.

Noun

Rabin fingerprint (plural Rabin fingerprints)

  1. A 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...

Forms of Rabin fingerprint

pluralRabin fingerprints

Origin of Rabin fingerprint

Named after Israeli mathematician Michael O. Rabin (1931–).

Questions about Rabin fingerprint

What does Rabin fingerprint mean?
Rabin fingerprint means a fingerprint using polynomials over a finite field.
What part of speech is Rabin fingerprint?
Rabin fingerprint is a noun.
What is the plural of Rabin fingerprint?
The plural of Rabin fingerprint is Rabin fingerprints.

Words near Rabin fingerprint in the dictionary

  1. rabific
  2. rabiform
  3. rabigenic
  4. Rabil
  5. Rabin
  6. Rabin fingerprint
  7. Rabin fingerprints
  8. Rabin-Karp algorithm
  9. Rabin-Karp algorithms
  10. Rabin-Miller test
  11. Rabindra

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