Collisions in Hash Tables
This lesson is about how collisions occur in hashing and the common strategies used in resolving these collisions.
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When you map large keys into a small range of numbers from 0-N, where N is the size of the array, there is a huge possibility that two different keys may return the same index. This phenomenon is called a collision.
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