Introduction to separate chaining

Now that we know what a hash table is and the operations it supports, we can dive deeper into how hash tables deal with collisions. Separate chaining is one such way of collision resolution in hash tables. As the name suggests, the internal array is an array of a chain-like data structure in the separate chaining implementation of a hash table. This data structure can simultaneously hold more than one data item, which is exactly how collisions are resolved. All the keys with the same hash value are stored at the hashed index, forming a data chain.