I've recently been trying to incorporate hash tables into my life. The joy and love of hash tables has added new depth to my everyday. I feel like I would be filled with more love if I was clear on the proper way to declare the number of buckets.
I have looked at the equation that says what is ideal. So I thought I'd just use that when I made the hashtable. But when I hmake table %number it always returns the invalid parameter. While I'm sure if I did hmake table 500 it would work just fine, it seems like I can't always know what size my hashtables will end up being so I'd like to use the equation and calculate what size hash table would be right when I make the hash table, but that doesn't seem to work for me. Am I doing something wrong?