Re: find words that contains some specific letters
Lew wrote:
There will be a small List or similar structure at each bucket of the
Set, but generally speaking those lists will be very small relative to
m.
Giovanni Azua wrote:
big O is about worst-case complexity not about "relatively this or that",
hoping small rather than big data size is wishful thinking.
m being the size of the dictionary:
if you mean small being m/1000 this is still O(m)
if you mean small being m/1000000 this is still O(m)
Nope. We're talking about String keys. Strings have a hash code that
disperses the elements properly among the buckets
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/HashSet.html
What you can expect is order k, where k is the number of keys that hash to the
same bucket. For typical uses of String keys, that'll be very, very small, on
the order of ten or less, and will not vary with m.
e.g. you can place a hashCode implementation that always returns 1 and that
will proof the constant time offering wrong or simply the data being
modelled does not have a perfect hashCode e.g. String.
You could, but Strings don't.
What do you mean by a "perfect" hash code? No hash code guarantees completely
distinct values for distinct keys. What String's hash achieves is
probabilistically extremely good distribution, thus fulfilling the requirement
of the Javadocs.
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