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What is the "internal hash function" for UUIDs in DynamoDB?

Amazon's DynamoDB documentation appears to be deliberately cagey about how a partition is selected for a row. Here is the discussion about the Partition Key (emphasis mine): Partition key – A simple ...
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In MySQL partitioning a table, how is the DIV used here as part of the HASH partition definition?

I was reading about partitioning and somewhere I read the following example: HASH (id DIV 1000000) This can be used to create a new partition for each million rows inserted (id is the primary key). ...
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