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Bad hash function. Consider the following hashCode() implementation for String, which was...

Bad hash function. Consider the following hashCode() implementation for String, which was used in early versions of Java:

public int hashCode(){int hash = 0;int skip = Math.max(1, length()/8);for (int i = 0; i

Explain why you think the designers chose this implementation and then why you think it was abandoned in favor of the one in the previous exercise.

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