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 1. Is the mapping of objects to shards uniform? 
 
-1. Suppose that each shard now lives on a separate database server. Under what workloads (e.g., specific queries) would range partitioning be a good/bad choice? 
+1. Suppose that each shard now lives on a separate database server. Under what workloads (e.g., specific queries) would consistent hash partitioning be a good/bad choice? 
 
 1. Suppose that you need to grow your "cluster" by adding 10 additional nodes to the distributed consistent-hashing "ring" you built in Exercise 2. By any means you choose, count the total number of objects that would migrate from one shard to a new shard if you were to divide the interval [0,pow(2,32)] into 36 shards instead of the preexisting 26 shards.