Adding perfect and covering perfect hash families #38604
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This patch aims to add basic functions for perfect hash families (PHF) and covering perfect hash families (CPHF), two types of combinatorial objects that have connections to covering arrays.
This adds a function to check if an array is a PHF, one to check if an array is a CPHF and a basic construction to build PHFs.
In a following patch we would like to add methods to covering_arrays.py which take PHFs or CPHFs as input.
This fixes #38603