Bloom filter

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Etymology

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Conceived by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970.

Noun

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Bloom filter (plural Bloom filters)

  1. (computing theory) A space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not.
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