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@bonara bonara commented Sep 17, 2019

Hash Table Practice

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Comprehension Questions

Question Answer
Why is a good Hash Function Important?
How can you judge if a hash function is good or not?
Is there a perfect hash function? If so what is it?
Describe a strategy to handle collisions in a hash table
Describe a situation where a hash table wouldn't be as useful as a binary search tree
What is one thing that is more clear to you on hash tables now

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You have grouped_anagrams working, but see my notes on time complexity.

# Each subarray will have strings which are anagrams of each other
# Time Complexity: ?
# Space Complexity: ?
# Time Complexity: O(n)

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If the words are expected to be small, this is true.

# Time Complexity: ?
# Space Complexity: ?
# Time Complexity: O(n)
# Space Complexity: 0(n)

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Zero of n? 0(n)

hash[element] = 1
end
end
sorted_arrays = hash.sort

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You're doing a sort here, how does this impact time complexity?

# in the case of a tie it will select the first occuring element.
# Time Complexity: ?
# Space Complexity: ?
# Time Complexity: O(n)

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Look a bit down, you're doing a sort... how is that impacting things?

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