Reading material

If you use the first edition of the textbook, follow the reading material in orange. If you use the second edition, follow the reading material in brown.

(1st) pages 286-287 (Section 7.6.1), pages 290-291 (Section 7.6.3)

(2nd) pages 346-357 (Section 8.3.5-8.3.7)

Additional material

Implementation of a dictionary by means of a hash table: PostScript and PDF

Pseudocode for linear probing: PostScript and PDF

Question

Give an example of the quadratic probing strategy not finding an empty bucket even though there is one. You do not need more than five buckets.