Thursday 30 July 2020

Hash Functions - Coursera Algorithms

We can do better than the sequential/binary search or search through BST/red-black BST, by storing the data in key-indexed table. Hash functions compute the array index from key. We need to handle the hash implementation, equality test and collision resolution when two keys hash to the same index.

There are several hashing implementations, some of them being :
1. 31*initial_hash_value+ current element value or current object hashcode.
2. Modular - Math.abs(key.hashCode() & 0x7fffffff)%M returning a hash between 0 and M-1

Following code experiments with what happens when we override equals/hashcode:





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