Under certain assumptions the expected cost of an insertion


Question: Under certain assumptions, the expected cost of an insertion in a hash table with secondary clustering is given by 1/(1 - λ) - λ - ln(1 - λ). Unfortunately, this formula is not accurate for quadratic probing. However, assuming that it is,

a. What is the expected cost of an unsuccessful search?

b. What is the expected cost of a successful search?

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