When making a storage system distributed across many machines, designers are faced with a critical question: Where is my data? At the heart of every storage system is a mechanism for determining where ...

Abstract: The aim of this work is to design and implement program, which is able to do basic operations and to interactively create hash tables. It describes principles of hashing, behavior of hash ...

Planetesimal collisions during planet formation in the early solar system. Credit: Kouji Kanba Earth and Mars are mysteriously low in elements like copper and zinc, which are crucial for planetary ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

ILL High Flux reasearch reactor: Cherenkov radiation visible in the reactor pool. Credit: Jean-Louis Baudet Einsteinium-255, produced through irradiation in ILL’s high-flux reactor, provided a ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...

Planetary formation has always fascinated scientists. Understanding how Earth and Mars formed, and why they contain fewer essential elements than expected, remains one of the biggest mysteries in ...

Ever tripped over a rogue ottoman in the middle of the night? You’re not alone. Arranging furniture for better flow isn’t just about avoiding stubbed toes—it’s about creating a harmonious space where ...

The two most promising potential element candidates are element 119, tentatively named ununennium, and element 120, aka unbinilium. These elements are so massive that they do not fit in any of the ...

Bucket Hashing (also known as Separate Chaining) is an effective method for resolving collisions in hash tables. In this method, each position in the hash table contains a "bucket" to store multiple ...