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The Joys of Hashing: Hash Table Programming with C
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The Joys of Hashing: Hash Table Programming with C

by Thomas Mailund
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
209 pages
3h 44m
English
Apress
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© Thomas Mailund 2019
Thomas MailundThe Joys of Hashinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4066-3_1

1. The Joys of Hashing

Thomas Mailund1 
(1)
Aarhus N, Denmark
 

This book is an introduction to the hash table data structure. When implemented and used appropriately, hash tables are exceptionally efficient data structures for representing sets and lookup tables. They provide constant time, low overhead, insertion, deletion, and lookup. The book assumes the reader is familiar with programming and the C programming language. For the theoretical parts of the book, it also assumes some familiarity with probability theory and algorithmic theory.

Hash tables are constructed from two basic ideas: reducing application keys to a hash key, a number in the range ...

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ISBN: 9781484240663