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I do not quite understand how universal hashing works. For example, when I insert an item into my hash table, I have to choose a random function from my universal family of hash functions. Now I want to retrieve said item. How will my hash table know which function it has to use to calculate the hash?
Because you’ll use the same hash function for all the items in the table.