Don't Mess with the Girl with Candy novel Chapter 682

"Don't you dare spout such nonsense!" Byron's authority was being challenged, and he was furious. "If you can't answer, then sit down and stop talking rubbish."

"The problem states a hash table HT with a length of 5, initially empty. The hash function is H(k) = (k+4) % 5, and it uses linear probing to resolve collisions. A sequence of keys is inserted, and then a key is deleted…"

Everyone stared blankly. Juniper's explanation was like a foreign language to the other students. Hash what? Key what? The words were familiar on their own, but strung together like that, they were utterly alien. Had their Goddess been taking a different class? How did she know so much? Had Tucker been giving her private lessons?

"How can the key you're deleting be 26?" Juniper continued, her tone calm and clear. "With that number, it's impossible to calculate the average search length for a failed lookup."

She paused, letting the information sink in before adding, "However, if you change the number to 25, you get a clean result of 10. Alternatively, changing the modulus in the hash function from 5 to 6 would also lead to one of the multiple-choice answers."

Byron listened, quickly re-calculating in his head based on Juniper's suggestions. To his astonishment, she was right. Following her logic, one of the provided answers was achievable.

But with the original problem, the calculated answer wasn't among the options. It was completely absurd to give students an unsolvable problem. And he had the audacity to use it to test her?

"Professor Byron, if you don't believe me, we can ask another professor to take a look," Juniper said, just as she spotted Tucker walking past the classroom door. "In fact, Professor Tucker is right outside."

Hearing his name, Tucker instinctively stopped and peered into the room.

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