Exercises
16.3 Define each of the following terms:
a) Collection
b) Collections
c) Comparator
d) List
e) load factor
f) collision
g) space/time trade-off in hashing
h) HashMap
16.4 Explain briefly the operation of each of the following methods of class Vector:
a) add
b) set
c) remove
d) removeAllElements
e) removeElementAt
f) firstElement
g) lastElement
h) contains
i) indexOf
j) size
k) capacity
16.5 Explain why inserting additional elements into a Vector object whose current size is less than its capacity is a relatively fast operation and why inserting additional elements into a Vector object whose current size is at capacity is a relatively slow operation.
16.6 By extending class Vector, Java’s designers were able to create class Stack quickly. ...
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