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Journal of Inforamtion Science and Engineering, Vol.7 No.2, pp.173-186 (June 1991)
A Composite Perfect Hashing Scheme for
Large Letter-Oriented Key Sets

C. C. Chang
 Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering,
National Chung Cheng University
Chiayi, Taiwan 621, Republic of China

A method is presented for constructing composite perfect hashing functions for letter-oriented key sets. Contrary to the usual perfect hashing, ours can store a large set of keys. Our scheme is inspired by Chang, Chen and Jan's method. With the help of a hashing indicator directory (HID), we compose a set of perfect hashing functions constructed by Chang, Chen and Jan's method. An algorithm to construct HIDs and a simple algorithm to retrieve data are also presented.

Keywords: perfect hashing functions, collisions, composite functions

Received October 26, 1989; revised November 20, 1990.
Communicated by J. F. Wang.