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simple uniform hashing

(definition)

Definition: The assumption or goal that items are equally likely to hash to any value.

See also hash table, perfect hashing, uniform hashing.

Note: If this assumption holds, items are evenly distributed in a hash table and there are a minimum of collisions.

Author: PEB


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Paul E. Black, "simple uniform hashing", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/simpleUniformHashing.html