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Dictionary definition: hashing algorithm
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- A Dictionary of Computing
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Copyright© A Dictionary of Computing 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information)
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hashing algorithm
An algorithm that, for a given key
k
, yields a function
f
(
k
); this in turn yields the starting point for a
hash search
for the key
k
. The function
f
is called the
hash function
. A typical hash function is the ...
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