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They most likely meant "hash" in the sense of Ruby's Hash (http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Hash.html http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Hash.html), a.k.a. hash map, dict
by tlrobinson 14y ago
They most likely meant "hash" in the sense of Ruby's Hash (http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Hash.html http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Hash.html), a.k.a. hash map, dictionary, associative array, etc.
It's annoying terminology, I agree.
- gburt 14y agoIts the distinction between data structure and algorithm that seems to fall apart here. The word hash on its own is used to refer to the output of a hash function ("the hash of X is Y") rather than the ADT "dictionary" that they really meant. It appears that you're right though, this may be something extracted from the Ruby community.
- jon-wood 14y agoThat's precisely it, I come from a background of doing Perl and Ruby, which led to my misuse of the word hash here.
- andyidsinga 14y agoI was gonna say.... my first thoughts were : a) which algo, and b) which field should be hashed ... ....so in fact they're probably weeding out programmers who've done such things