That assumption refers to hash tables, and a conjecture based on work from the 1980s regarding the optimal way to store and query the data in them. The student, formerly of Rutgers University in New ...

Then try this hamburger hash. Ground beef is nicely ... and didn't know what I wanted to do with it. I threw this dish ...

Hash tables have become ubiquitous in computing, partly because of their simplicity and ease of use. They’re designed to allow users to do exactly three things: “query” (search for) an element, delete ...