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<a name="details" id="details"></a><h2 class="groupheader">Detailed Description</h2>
<p>A hash table is a data structure that associates some data with a unique key. </p>
<p>If you know the key, you can get back the data much more quickly than with a linked list, particularly as the number of items stored grows 