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Hash tables are common lookup data structures. A key element of such data structure is a hash function because it greatly affects its latency. A badly designed hash function may slow down the hash table by producing hash collisions which is a negative state that has to be resolved using additional computation time. There is no deterministic method for designing a well performing hash function. The...