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Return the current ratio between the `size` of this container and the number of buckets. The load factor is a measure of how full the container is, and a higher load factor typically leads to an increased number of collisions, thus resulting in a loss of performance.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_unorderedmultimap.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
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float
load_factor() const noexcept;
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