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Transcribed Image Text:1) Hashing Basics
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Hashing tries to make every key map to its own special place so that all searches will be O(1).
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Probing is one method to deal with the (nearly) inevitable collisions between keys' mappings.
Chaining is another method of dealing with collisions.
Probing is by far the better method to handle collisions in a hash table.
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