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Return the current load factor for this table. The load factor is the statistical mean number of elements per bucket.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_hashtable.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
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float
loadFactor() const;
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== Return Value

current load factor (mean elements per bucket)


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