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Definition: When two or more items should be kept in the same location, especially in hash tables, that is, when two or more different keys hash to the same value.
See also collision resolution scheme, perfect hashing, simple uniform hashing.
Author: PEB
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Entry modified 17 December 2004.
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Cite this as:
Paul E. Black, "collision", in
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed.,
U.S. National Institute of
Standards and Technology. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY)
Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/collision.html
