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Re:Show HN: An improved version of HyperLogLog by seiflotfy on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:03PM (#14637803)
Its always going to be half. The thing is the space is allocated upon creation of the data structure and does not increase afterwards
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Re:Show HN: An improved version of HyperLogLog by lorenzhs on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:28PM (#14638004)
That doesn't match up with the tagline "An improved version of HyperLogLog for the count-distinct problem, approximating the number of distinct elements in a multiset using 20-50% less space than other usual HyperLogLog implementations."
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Re:Show HN: An improved version of HyperLogLog by seiflotfy on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:51PM (#14638210)
I am comparing the implementations from influx and axiom
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