Is it possible for two unequal objects to have the same hashcode in Java?

Question

If two interface have same method, then in a class which implements both interface, how can we come to know that which method is of which interface?

Answer 1

It is not required that if two objects are unequal according to the equal(), then calling the hashcode method on each of the two objects must produce distinct values.
Depending on the hashing function, 2 different objects can have the same hash code. However, 2 objects wich are the same must produce the same result when hashed (unless someone implemented a hashing function with random numbers in which case it's useless)

For example, if I am hashing integers and my hashing function is simply (n % 10) then the number 17 and the number 27 will produce the same result. This does not mean that those numbers are the same.