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In programming, we often need fairly distribution of data. For example, this can be used when assigning work to one of several running processes and partitioning. Recently, while realizing such a problem, I decided to approach the subject more “mathematically”. Using erlang:phash2/2 you can get the same hash for the same Erlang term regardless of machine architecture and ERTS version. It is possible to indicate the maximum range in the form 0..Range-1. The function should always be used for hash...