2 2 votes difference between unsuccessful and successful probe? Data Structures hashing data-structures + – nikkey123 1.4k views answer comment Share Follow Print See 1 comment 1 1 comment reply Shiva Sagar Rao commented Apr 26, 2021 reply Follow flag Duplicates: https://gateoverflow.in/167352/m-e-test https://gateoverflow.in/279814/note_c-ds_1_16 0 0 replyShare Please log in or register to add a comment.
Best answer 3 3 votes unsuccessful means that you search a cell in your hash table to put an element in it but it was already filled. so you now apply open addressing or chaining to resolve your problem in this case last element is 72 so it should be placed inside 2nd row. so Probe 1: unsuccessful 62 was there :( now you apply linear probing probe 2 : unsuccessful 83 was there :( probe 3 : unsuccessful 84 was there :( probe 4 : unsuccessful 95 was there :( probe 5 : unsuccessful 74 was there :( probe 6 : unsuccessful 23 was there :( probe 7 : unsuccessful 86 was there :( probe 8 : successful it was empty so we can put 72 there :) so 7 unsuccessful probe Red_devil answered Nov 21, 2017 • selected Nov 21, 2017 by nikkey123 Red_devil comment Share Follow See all 3 Comments 3 3 Comments reply nikkey123 commented Nov 21, 2017 reply Follow flag i think i am not getting the answer can u please explain the question 0 0 replyShare Red_devil commented Nov 21, 2017 reply Follow flag bhai ye puchh rha hai ki last element 72 ko insert krne ke liye kitni baar hash table search krna padega jbtk hame ak empty cell naa mil jaye 3 3 replyShare nikkey123 commented Nov 21, 2017 reply Follow flag okk, got it 0 0 replyShare Please log in or register to add a comment.