Hash Search

#https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/171168/without-using-numbers-get-the-highest-salary-you-can-but-dont-exaggerate

#Code takes one of the forms:
#   "$%d"%hash(    <string>    )
#   "$%d"%-hash(    <string>    )
#   "$%d"%~hash(    <string>    )
#Test strings by:
#   print("\"%s\""%(bytearray(    <counters>    ).decode("utf-8")))

best = []
maxs = []
for i in range(64):
    best.append(0)
    if i==0: maxs.append("error")
    else:    maxs.append(int( 1000000.0*(i**-0.75) ))

counters = [0]
while True:
    try:
        s = bytearray(counters).decode("utf-8")
        length1 = 14 + len(counters)
        length2 = length1 + 1
        length3 = length2
        h1 = hash(s)
        h2 = -h1
        h3 = ~h1
        if h1 > best[length1] and h1 <= maxs[length1]:
            print(("Best (%6d/%d=%f) for length %d by "%( h1,maxs[length1],float(h1)/float(maxs[length1]), length1 ))+str(counters)+" (type 1)")
            best[length1] = h1
        if h2 > best[length2] and h2 <= maxs[length2]:
            print(("Best (%6d/%d=%f) for length %d by "%( h2,maxs[length2],float(h2)/float(maxs[length2]), length2 ))+str(counters)+" (type 2)")
            best[length2] = h2
        if h3 > best[length3] and h3 <= maxs[length3]:
            print(("Best (%6d/%d=%f) for length %d by "%( h3,maxs[length3],float(h3)/float(maxs[length3]), length3 ))+str(counters)+" (type 3)")
            best[length3] = h3
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        pass

    i = 0
    while True:
        counters[i] += 1
        if counters[i]==256:
            counters[i] = 0
            i += 1
            if i == len(counters):
                counters.append(0)
                break
        else:
            break

#"$%d"%hash("")
#"$%d"%hash("ɒ&")
#f"${hash("ɒ&")}"