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Hash table

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-12 0:24

Is it ever possible to have a Hash table that can do get,put,remove @ O(1) for Strings?

calculating the hash for the String alone is O(n), is it not? [that's if you want to produce a good hash that won't collide all over the place]

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-17 19:18

It's easy on a Turing machine, just use the infinitely long strings as indices into the infinite memory and keep the entries infinitely apart so any string can be stored.

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