Chapter 19, Problem 4AW

Explanation of Solution

Pseudocode to outline the procedure followed by a “HashSet” object to add a new object:

Call the new object’s hashCode method to get the object’s hash code.

Check if the has code’s bucket is empty or not.

    If it is empty then, store that object in the bucket

  Otherwise,

Compare with each object in the bucket using the object's "equals" method

        If it is not equal to any object then,

            Store the object in the bucket

        Otherwise,

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