What is meant by clustering? How does clustering affect the overall efficiency of hashing?
What will be an ideal response?
Clustering is the tendency of items to map into groups of locations in a hash table, rather than randomly scattered locations. Clustering can cause lengthy search times and therefore decrease the overall efficiency of hashing.
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a. literal field b. constant field c. sentinel field d. common field
The agile approach and the ________ approach both allow subsystems to be built one at a time until the entire system is complete.
A) systems development life cycle B) unified modeling C) try and try again D) object-oriented
In the accompanying figure, item 1 points to the ____________________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
To display the Property Sheet for a yield, you must first click in the field
Indicate whether the statement is true or false