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* Unwind just the "pseudorandom probing" (whole hash-code-keyed variable stride double hashing) part of recent sets & tables changes (which has still been causing bugs over a month later (e.g., two days ago https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/13794) as well as still having several "figure this out" implementation question comments in them (see just diffs of this PR). This topic has been discussed in many places: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/13393 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/13418 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/13440 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/13794 Alternative/non-mandatory stronger integer hashes (or vice-versa opt-in identity hashes) are a better solution that is more general (no illusion of one hard-coded sequence solving all problems) while retaining the virtues of linear probing such as cache obliviousness and age-less tables under delete-heavy workloads (still untested after a month of this change). The only real solution for truly adversarial keys is a hash keyed off of data unobservable to attackers. That all fits better with a few families of user-pluggable/define-switchable hashes which can be provided in a separate PR more about `hashes.nim`. This PR carefully preserves the better (but still hard coded!) probing of the `intsets` and other recent fixes like `move` annotations, hash order invariant tests, `intsets.missingOrExcl` fixing, and the move of `rightSize` into `hashcommon.nim`. * Fix `data.len` -> `dataLen` problem. * Add neglected API call `find` to heapqueue. * Add a changelog.md entry, `since` annotation and rename parameter to be `heap` like all the other procs for consistency. * Add missing import.