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30<span class="firstname">Daniel</span> <span class="surname">James</span>
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63      <code class="computeroutput"><a href="boost/hash.html" title="Struct template hash">boost::hash</a></code> is an implementation of
64      the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function" target="_top">hash function</a>
65      object specified by the <a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1836.pdf" target="_top">Draft
66      Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions</a> (TR1). It is intended for
67      use as the default hash function for unordered associative containers, and
68      the <a href="../../libs/multi_index/doc/index.html" target="_top">Boost Multi-Index Containers
69      Library</a>'s hash indexes.
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92      Extension Technical Report Issues List</a> (page 63), this adds support
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99<li><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">pair</span></code></li>
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101        the standard containers.
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104        extending <code class="computeroutput"><a href="boost/hash.html" title="Struct template hash">boost::hash</a></code> for custom
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