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Lecture 8: Hashing with Chaining
- Course
- Introduction to Algorithms
- Instructor
- Erik Demaine
- Department
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Recorded
- Fall 2011
- Level
- Undergraduate
Free account required. The lecture opens at MIT OpenCourseWare.
About this lecture
This lecture starts with dictionaries in Python, considers the problems with using a direct-access table, and introduces hashing. The lecture discusses hashing with chaining, which is one way of dealing with collisions.
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