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Comprehension Questions

Question Answer
Why is a good Hash Function Important? Avoids clumping, saves time and space
How can you judge if a hash function is good or not? If it's basically an array
Is there a perfect hash function? If so what is it? No, or if there is that discussion is above my paygrade
Describe a strategy to handle collisions in a hash table use the next space! or make the location of the collision a bucket/another data structure
Describe a situation where a hash table wouldn't be as useful as a binary search tree when you want to sorted data
What is one thing that is more clear to you on hash tables now oh gosh... I am possible more muddled. I don't know anything anymore

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Nice work Christabel, you hit the learning goals here. Well done.

hashes = []
strings.each do |word|
word_hash = {}
word = word.chars.sort #sort is O(n)?

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Sort is O(n log n), it's mergeSort

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# Time Complexity: O(2nm + p) where n is the length of the list passed to grouped_anagrams, and m represents the number of chars in each string and p is the number of unique char hashes
# == O(nm)
# Space Complexity: Um O(2n) == O(n) since I am creating an array equal to the length of the passed in list and the worst case size for the meta_hash is also the length of the passed in list?

def grouped_anagrams(strings)

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I'd say this is O(n * m log m) where m is the number of chars in each string and n is the length of the array.

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# Time Complexity: O(3n) == O(n) where n is the length of the passed in list
# Space Complexity: O(n) since the worst case is that the elements hash is the full length of the passed in list
def top_k_frequent_elements(list, k)

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This is O(n log n) because sorting is O(n log n)

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# Time Complexity: oh goodness. this is a mean question. I'm going with O(1) since the grid is always 9x9, but let me show my work here...
# O(9) == O(1) for checking for uniqueness in all rows and columns
# O(9) == O(1) for building the 2darray of all subgrid values
# O(9^2) == O(1) for checking for uniqueness in all subgrid values
# Space Complexity: for lack of more confident alternate logic, I'm going with the same answer as above, O(1) since the grid is a fixed size so the worst case for the created row, column, and subgrid hash are all worst case space complexities of O(9) and the array of subgrid values is a fixed size of O(81)
def valid_sudoku(table)

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👍 You are correct that the time/space complexity is O(1)

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