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### sdbmHashAlgorithm
This algorithm is a simple hash-algorithm that hashs it input string 's' into a whole number.
The function iterates over each character in string 's' and updates in each iteration the 'hashCode'.
``` js
function sdbm(s) {
let hashCode = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
hashCode = s.charCodeAt(i) + (hashCode << 6) + (hashCode << 16) - hashCode;
}
return hashCode;
}
// examples
console.log(sdbm("name")) // -3521204949
console.log(sdbm("age")) // 808122783
```