On Jun 4, Paul said:
> 3/8
>
>Which means there are 3 elements, and space has been allocated for 8.
No, it means 3 out of the 8 buckets allocated have been used. This
doesn't tell you the number of keys, unless (by some terrible
misfortune) all your keys have found their way into unique buckets.
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