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reason enough to fail the interview (lemmy.world)
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A picture of Edsger Dijkstra with a concerned face and the following text on top: How software engineers look at your code when you solve the problem using two tables — instead of using the Maxwell-Ross-Karmakar algorithm, which is marginally optimal in ordered sets bijectable to the exponential curve
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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The only definition of hash that I know is an identifier for an object created from that object's data. Everything else stems from that central idea. What other types of hash are there?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, it's basically that, but it has different uses - two main things I can think of right away are 1) verifying data when downloading large files and 2) cryptography (e.g. when storing credentials). Oh, and hash tables too.

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