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by izzle49 3854 days ago
tldr you can have list or hashes to represent your data model, trivial observation
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Yeah, but now that trivial observation has a name that he coined.

And incidentally, what a terrible name. A "hash" (really hash table) is a specific implementation of a map/dictionary. You shouldn't use "hash" to refer to a map based on search trees.

It is interesting that hash is sometimes (incorrectly) used as a synonym or generic name for map/dictionaty/associative array, but Red-Black-Tree, AVL tree, etc. is not.