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For
example, we could treat teh searching as a “black
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like an "address calculator" that takes the item we
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want
to search for and returns to us the exact location
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in
our table where the item is located. Or, if we want to
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insert
something into the table...we give this black box
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our
item and it tells us where we should place it in the
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table.
First of all, we need to learn about hash tables
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when
you see the word “table” in this context, think of just a
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way
of storing data rather than the “adt” itself.
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