MIT 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms, Fall 2011 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/6-006F11 Instructor: Erik Demaine License: Creative Commons ...
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visit MIT OpenCourseWare at ocw.mit.edu. PROFESSOR: All right. Let's get started. Today we start a brand
new section of 006, which is hashing. Hashing is cool. It is probably the most used
and common and important data structure and all
of computer science. It's in, basically, every system
you've ever used, I think. And in particular,
it's in Python as part of what makes
Python fun to program in. And basically, every modern
programming language has it. So today is about how to
make it actually happen. So what is it? ...