492	 Analysis of a File Addressing Method	 This paper presents a new file addressing method based on the calculation of an address from the identification of a record. For large recirculating type files it seems to be more advantageous than customary ones. The probability distribution of the displacement of records from their calculated address which is one less than the number of probes required to address a record is computed on the basis of a Markov chain model. For the reader not interested in the mathematics the introduction and the summary should be sufficient.
