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Hashing
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- 1What is hashing?Hashing is a method of transforming a string of characters in a record into a shortened form that can be used as a disk address
- 2How can the shortened form be useful?It can be used to access a record from a database more quickly than by using the original string
- 3What happens when there are multiple records?They can usually produce some hash values that are the same
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- AS - Level Computing (Component 1) Flashcards on Hashing, created by Lewis Hunt on 20/05/2016.
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