Definitely not in set

May 20, 2017

Definitely not in set

— devadutta @ 10:50 am, GMT +0000 ( 1495277425 )

2017-05-26

Continuing our Algorithm themed round is this plaintext question. This eponymous algorithm, made famous by Google and Akamai is used widely in databases, search engines and data analytics platforms to find if an element exists in a set or not. Which algorithm are we talking about?

Hint:

Cracked by: Dibyo and Dibyo

Answer:
Bloom Filter.

Points assigned by AutoRaja. Review by lazy humans pending.

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