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Re:How Big Is YouTube? by cbolton on Saturday December 23, 2023 @08:07AM (#38743982)
No the distribution doesn't matter at all. I've given an extreme example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38742735
Re:How Big Is YouTube? by Keyframe on Saturday December 23, 2023 @07:04PM (#38749575)
I see what you did there. So basically an overlapped proportion (or hits proportion) would be overlapping hits divided by samples run, and then an estimated total would be this proportion divided by total space of possibilities. That would work.