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I like to hash a list of words (actually, the command line args of my program) 
in such a way that different words will create different hash, but not sensitive 
to the order of the words.  Any ideas?

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order independent hash? Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 07:32 -0500
  Re: order independent hash? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-02 10:18 -0800
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