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Hash Table Practice

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Comprehension Questions

Question Answer
Why is a good Hash Function Important? A good hash function reduces collisions. Because hash tables work more efficiently when they have fewer collisions, it's important to have a good hash function to reduce the likelihood of collisions
How can you judge if a hash function is good or not? If the function executes in constant time, if it (mostly) maps different keys to different values, it should be consistent, and the hashing should look random.
Is there a perfect hash function? If so what is it? No.
Describe a strategy to handle collisions in a hash table Chaining - we can make each bucket of the hash's internal array the head of a linked list. This isn't great because if there are a lot of items in the same bucket, the time complexity starts to get close to O(n)
Describe a situation where a hash table wouldn't be as useful as a binary search tree If a dataset can't provide unique keys or if you don't really need a key/value pair to search. For example, a really long list of companies in alphabetical order.
What is one thing that is more clear to you on hash tables now Ruby is very kind to us behind the scenes. But now I understand what makes a good hash function, so hopefully I can implement it in other languages.

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Really nice, I like how you thought to break down the Sudoku problem into smaller methods. You got all the problems here. Nice work!


# Checks whether there is any
# duplicate in current column or not.
def in_column?(table)

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These in_row and in_column methods don't look very dry here.

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end
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Minor thing: I suggest a return true here.


# Checks whether there is any duplicate
# in current 3×3 box or not.
def in_box?(table)

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This is a really slick method! Nice

# in the case of a tie it will select the first occurring element.
# Time Complexity: O(n)
# Space Complexity: O(n)
def top_k_frequent_elements(list, k)

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Nice work!

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

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Looking at your later loop, I would say this is O(k * n)

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

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Assuming the words are small, this is correct.

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