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spiral storage
A dynamic hashing table that grows a few slots at a time. It uses a hash function, h, with a range of (0,1). For a key, k, an intermediate value, x=⌈ S-h(k)⌉ +h(k), is computed to find the final slot, ⌊ dx⌋, where d>1 is called the growth factor. To increase the number of slots, increase S to S' and rehash any keys from ⌊ dS⌋ to ⌊ dS'⌋-1.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Computer science
- Category: Algorithms & data structures
- Government Agency: NIST
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