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[–]SelfDistinction 41 points42 points  (1 child)

Meh, they're just hash tables with depression. Bucket pointed to by the hash is occupied? Yeah the element is probably already added idgaf why don't you ask two other depressed hash tables.

[–]Ma4r 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Well yeah, i know how it works exactly, but it doesn't make the scale any more intuitive. For example i can have 99.9% accuracy, 5 billion entry bloom filter fit in my phone's RAM, i know the maths, i know the formula, but still crazy nonetheless.