Abstract: The linear-probing hash table is one of the oldest and most widely used data structures in computer science. However, linear probing famously comes with a major draw-back: as soon as the ...

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Hash tables are one of the oldest and simplest data structures for storing elements and supporting deletions and queries. Invented in 1953, they underly most computational systems. Yet despite their ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

Quadratic probing is intended to avoid primary clustering. We probe one step at a time, but our stride varies as the square of the step. Stride values follow the sequence 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, … etc.

Linear probing is a collision resolution strategy. When a collision occurs on insert, we probe the hash table, in a linear, stepwise fashion, to find the next available space in which to store our new ...

Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it. About 70 years ago, an engineer at IBM named Hans ...