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One of the ways we count distinct elements in an unknown amount of data--probabilistically! You may have heard of Bloom filters and the like, and this is a similar family of algorithms.

https://research.neustar.biz/2012/07/09/sketch-of-the-day-k-...




Oh that makes sense, bloom filters are super fun




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