In data structure Hash, hash function is used to convert a string(or any other type) into an integer smaller than hash size and bigger or equal to zero. The objective of designing a hash function is to "hash" the key as unreasonable as possible. A good hash function can avoid collision as less as possible. A widely used hash function algorithm is using a magic number 33, consider any string as a 33 based big integer like follow:
hashcode("abcd") = (ascii(a) * 333+ ascii(b) * 332+ ascii(c) *33 + ascii(d)) % HASH_SIZE
= \(97\* 333+ 98 \* 332 + 99 \* 33 +100\) % HASH\_SIZE
= 3595978 % HASH\_SIZE
here HASH_SIZE is the capacity of the hash table (you can assume a hash table is like an array with index 0 ~ HASH_SIZE-1).
Given a string as a key and the size of hash table, return the hash value of this key.f
public class Solution {
/*
* @param key: A string you should hash
* @param HASH_SIZE: An integer
* @return: An integer
*/
public int hashCode(char[] key, int HASH_SIZE) {
// write your code here
long result = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < key.length; i++) {
result = (result * 33 + (int) key[i]) % HASH_SIZE;
}
return (int) result;
}
}