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| | Follow along with Steven Skiena's Fall 2018 algorithm course applied to the JavaScript language.
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| | Hi guys, have you ever wondered how can Python dictionaries be so fast and reliable? The answer is that they are built on top of another technology: hash tables. Knowing how Python hash tables work will give you a deeper understanding of how dictionaries work and this could be a great advantage for your Python understanding because dictionaries are almost everywhere in Python. Hash Functions Before introducing hash tables and their Python implementation you have to know what is a hash function and how it works. A hash function is a function that can map a piece of data of...
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| | A visual, interactive introduction to hash functions.
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| When it comes to hashing, sometimes 64 bit is not enough, for example, because of birthday paradox -- the hacker can iterate through random $latex 2^{32}$ entities and it can be proven that with some constant probability they will find a collision, i.e. two different objects will have the same hash. $latex 2^{32}$ is around...