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Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table

Summary by Verve Times
In a 1985 paper, the computer scientist Andrew Yao, who would go on to win the A.M. Turing Award, asserted that among hash tables with a specific set of properties, the best way to find an individual element or an empty spot is to just go through potential spots randomly—an approach known as uniform probing. He also stated that, in the worst-case scenario, where you’re searching for the last remaining open spot, you can never do better than x. F…
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Verve times broke the news in on Monday, March 17, 2025.
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