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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

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After looking at the recent GoLang update for curiosity, I noticed one standout item. GoLang now uses Swiss Tables for mapping. I'd not heard of this algorithm, so it took a bit of searching to come ...

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Linear probing is a collision resolution strategy. When a collision occurs on insert, we probe the hash table, in a linear, stepwise fashion, to find the next available space in which to store our new ...

Quadratic probing is intended to avoid primary clustering. We probe one step at a time, but our stride varies as the square of the step. Stride values follow the sequence 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, … etc.

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