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Questions about the science and art of determining properties of algorithms, often including correctness, runtime and space usage. Use the [runtime-analysis] tag for questions about the runtime of algorithms.

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Proof that probability that hashing with open addressing needs more than $k$ attempts is $2^...

There are $n$ elements in a hash table of size $m \geq 2n$ which uses open addressing to avoid collisions. The hash function was chosen randomly among a set of uniform functions. A set $H$ of hash-f …
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