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hash bucket
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. A notional receptacle, a set of which might be used to apportion data
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items for sorting or lookup purposes. When you look up a name in the phone
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book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter;
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the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. This term
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is used as techspeak with respect to code that uses actual hash functions;
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in jargon, it is used for human associative memory as well. Thus, two things
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in the same hash bucket are more difficult to discriminate, and may be
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confused. If you hash English words only by length, you get too many common
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grammar words in the first couple of hash buckets. Compare hash collision.
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