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Question by devi
Submitted on 10/16/2003
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What is hashing?


Answer by naidu_trk
Submitted on 12/18/2003
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hashing is a process of generating an index or address basing on ur data .For example file systems use  hash table to generate the disk location using the filename. A good hash function is the one which generates distinct addresses for distinct file names.

hashfunction( filename ) --> address

 

Answer by sub
Submitted on 6/27/2007
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