Yahoo Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers


Country: United States
Interview Type: Phone Interview




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Hashing is the transformation of a string of characters into a usually shorter fixed-length value or key that represents the original string. Hashing is used to index and retrieve items in a database because it is faster to find the item using the shorter hashed key than to find it using the original value. It is also used in many encryption algorithms.

- Appu June 13, 2012 | Flag Reply
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any algorithm or subroutine that maps larger data sets, called keys to smaller data sets

- nim January 17, 2012 | Flag Reply
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It is searching technique whose prime objective is to search data in O(1) time worst case.

- Abhishek Singh Sambyal June 13, 2012 | Flag Reply
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Check out my exclusive article on hashing techieme.in/techieme/hashing-in-detail-part-one/

- Dharmendra Prasad July 27, 2013 | Flag Reply


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