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> Remember that a bloom filter only answers yes/no questions.

Will, to nit-pick: the results from querying a bloom filter are either “no” or “maybe”, where the strength of the maybe varies from “are you feeling lucky?” to “almost definitely” depending on how well it is designed for the data it has been populated with.



the answer is no/maybe, but it's still a yes/no question as typically used


I was about to make a very pedantic point, but thinking about it I'm actually wrong… If the question is phrased oddly then it does give yes/no answers: “Is <item> definitely not in <set>?”.




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