32bit Hash

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Here's a function to turn an UUID into an integer.

integer Key2Integer(string inkey)
{
    return (integer)("0x" + llGetSubString(llMD5String(inkey,0), 0, 7));   
}

Note: The Seedable_PRNG example presents MD5 of MD5 of MD5 of ... as pseudo-random numbers

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• 32bit Hash (revision 1212859, 2022-12-06)

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