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New word: hashing #23

Open Cleop opened 5 years ago

Cleop commented 5 years ago

Relates to: https://github.com/learnTrack/Q-A/issues/56

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/hashing-data-structure/

nelsonic commented 5 years ago

It's worth being clear on the difference between the hash data structure and cryptographic hashing. they sound similar but are not the same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function