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In [8], a deep and elegant analysis shows that double hashing is asymptotically equivalent to the ideal uniform hashing up to a load factor of about 0.319. In this paper we show how a randomization technique can be used to develop a surprisingly simple proof of the result that this equivalence holds for load factors arbitrarily close to 1.

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Supported by National Science Foundation Grants DCR 85-09667 and CCR 89-12063 at the University of California at Irvine

Partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant DCR 85-09667 at the University of California at Irvine

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Lueker, G.S., Molodowitch, M. More analysis of double hashing. Combinatorica 13, 83–96 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01202791

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