help - why is this no work?!

[DunbarX at aol.com]

I am new at this, but "byte" is not native to rev, and you have not defined 
it.

Craig newman
In a message dated 5/14/09 3:06:49 AM, shaosean at wehostmacs.com writes:


> on mouseUp
>    constant kData  = "M"
>    constant k32    = 4294967296
>    constant kPrime = 16777619
>    local tHash     = 2166136261
> 
>    repeat for each byte tByte in kData
>      put (tHash * kPrime) MOD k32 into tHash
>      put tHash bitXor byteToNum(tByte) into tHash
>    end repeat
> 
>    put format("%08s", baseConvert(tHash, 10, 16))
> end mouseUp
> 
> 
> gives me 0x050C5D6D
> yet _EVERY_ program I use to compute the FNV1-32 hash gives me 
> 0x050C5D52 for the answer
> 
> The math is simple yet it is not giving the correct answer and I have 
> wasted the last two and a half days on this.. *sigh*
> 
> 
> http://isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/fnv/
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