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Numbersign vs Hashkey - What's the difference?

numbersign | hashkey |

numbersign

Not English

Numbersign has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

hashkey

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing, rare) The key used to locate a value in a hash table or equivalent data structure.
  • * 1995 , Ronald J Leach, Object-oriented Design and Programming with C++
    • Rather than store all the data in some type of sorted order, the data is to be stored and accessed on the basis of a hashkey that is computed by a function...
  • * 2001 , Elizabeth O'Neil, Database: Principles, Programming, and Performance
    • ...thus minimizing the number of I/Os needed to search through the chain for a single hashkey value.
  • * 2002 , Andy Carmichael, Dan Haywood, Better Software Faster
    • ...the qualifier would indicate the hashkey that returns the single required object rather than the whole set.