How HashTable and HashMap key-value are stored in the memory?

Question

I understand there is a hashing technique is applied to a key to store its value in the memory address.

But I don\'t understand how the collision is happeni

Answer 1

Here Hash does not mean for Hashing techniques such as MD5. Its the HashCode of memory location used to store an Object for a particular key.

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