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Re:Interactive Demo of Bloom Filters by avaer on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:31PM (#15186453)
I never needed a picture to understand a hash table once I knew what a hash function was. If it were called a McCready table, that's one more trip to Wikipedia, plus one more every time I forget.

Re: naming: It's a table of hash function results. It probabilistically stores a set. I don't see any filter here, though one use of the technique is indeed in filtering a list, though there are plenty more.

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Re:Interactive Demo of Bloom Filters by middleorigin on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:03PM (#15187493)
Right, but you're describing the implementation, which doesn't imply anything about its use. I prefer to name by the latter: the implemenation is just a detail on how the filter does its filtering.
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