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Note: Source: Knott, G. D., "Expandable open addressing hash table storage and retrieval." Proc. ACM SIGFIDET Workshop on Data Description, Access, and Control, 1971, pages 186-206.
See also Consistent hashing in Wikipedia. Consistent hashing allows mapping into arbitrary sets of buckets.
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Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 28 April 2009. (accessed TODAY)
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