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{{about|a computer programming construct|other meanings of "hash" and "hashing"|Hash (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:Hash table 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 LL.svg|thumb|240px|right|A hash function that maps names to integers from 0 to 15. There is a
A '''hash function''' is any [[Function (mathematics)|function]] that can be used to map [[data (computing)|data]] of arbitrary size to fixed-size values, though there are some hash functions that support variable-length output.<ref>{{cite conference |last1=Aggarwal |first1=Kirti |last2=Verma |first2=Harsh K. |date=March 19, 2015 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7164747 |title=Hash_RC6 — Variable length Hash algorithm using RC6 |doi=10.1109/ICACEA.2015.7164747 |conference=2015 International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering and Applications (ICACEA) |access-date=January 24, 2023}}</ref> The values returned by a hash function are called ''hash values'', ''hash codes'', (''hash/message'') ''digests'',<ref>
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