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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Hash??? Not quite clear on what this is...
Message-ID: <22533:Dec321:54:4390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 21:54:43 GMT
References: <9012031446.AA24102@bisco.kodak.COM>
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In article <9012031446.AA24102@bisco.kodak.COM> bilbo@bisco.kodak.COM (Charles Tryon) writes:
> My question
>   is, are there any recomendations out there for a good, fairly basic book on
>   hashing?  I don't need to know all the gory details and the latest hot-shot
>   methods, just the basics.

Knuth spends a section on hashing. The presentation is good and has all
the basics, but doesn't go into the latest hot-shot methods.

---Dan


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