To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Turing's birth, a team of geeks from the Netherlands decided to explain to the world just what the heck a Turing machine is--by designing and building one of out Lego. Check it out:
At the heart of the hash table algorithm is a simple array of items; this is often simply called the hash table. Hash table algorithms calculate an index from the data item's key and use this index to place the data into the array.