Friday, March 31, 2017

Hash Function

In data structure Hash, hash function is used to convert a string(or any other type) into an integer smaller than hash size and bigger or equal to zero. The objective of designing a hash function is to "hash" the key as unreasonable as possible. A good hash function can avoid collision as less as possible. A widely used hash function algorithm is using a magic number 33, consider any string as a 33 based big integer like follow:
hashcode("abcd") = (ascii(a) * 333 + ascii(b) * 332 + ascii(c) *33 + ascii(d)) % HASH_SIZE 
                              = (97* 333 + 98 * 332 + 99 * 33 +100) % HASH_SIZE
                              = 3595978 % HASH_SIZE
here HASH_SIZE is the capacity of the hash table (you can assume a hash table is like an array with index 0 ~ HASH_SIZE-1).
Given a string as a key and the size of hash table, return the hash value of this key.f
It is a very easy question. But it might be overflow if we just calculate directly by the given formula.
We have to get the mod of 33 while we are adding every bit.

/**
 * Definition for a Record
 * class Record {
 *     public int id, score;
 *     public Record(int id, int score){
 *         this.id = id;
 *         this.score = score;
 *     }
 * }
 */
public class Solution {
    /**
     * @param results a list of <student_id, score>
     * @return find the average of 5 highest scores for each person
     * Map<Integer, Double> (student_id, average_score)
     */
    public Map<Integer, Double> highFive(Record[] results) {
        // Write your code here
    }
}

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