Talk:2934: Bloom Filter

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It certaintly does contain a thing. 172.68.23.74 00:10, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

The title text deals with inaccuracies in determining whether you have chosen the right programming tool for your membership query (or some different task), not just inaccuracies in the Bloom filter as one of these tools. This analogy remains unexplained. Transgalactic (talk) 11:24, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

The title text makes a self-description joke, where it depicts using a bloom filter to determine whether bloom filters are appropriate, as if bloom filters were the only tool available for human decisions. 172.68.1.132 21:52, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

A perfectly functional GetHashCode() override in .net is "return 1;". 172.70.34.82 23:37, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

It could be used to test whether the set is empty. 172.70.39.96 09:01, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

The most likely thing in there is yes. Psychoticpotato (talk) 23:10, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

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