Bloom filter
hashing-based data structure for maintaining a set of items in limited memory, allowing false positives but no false negatives
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Bloom filter
Summary
Bloom filter is an Approximate Membership Query Filter[1]. It draws 1,129 Wikipedia views per month (approximate_membership_query_filter category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]
Key Facts
- Bloom filter is credited with the discovery of Burton Howard Bloom[3].
- Bloom filter's image is recorded as Bloom filter.svg[4].
- Bloom filter's image is recorded as Bloom filter fp probability.svg[5].
- Bloom filter's instance of is recorded as Approximate Membership Query Filter[6].
- Burton Howard Bloom is named after Bloom filter[7].
- Bloom filter's has use is recorded as Bloom filters in bioinformatics[8].
- Bloom filter's Commons category is recorded as Bloom filter[9].
- Bloom filter's publication date is recorded as +1970-07-01T00:00:00Z[10].
- Bloom filter's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02vfzg[11].
- Bloom filter's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/bloom-filter[12].
- Bloom filter's has effect is recorded as type I error[13].
- Bloom filter's different from is recorded as bloom[14].
- Bloom filter's ACM Classification Code is recorded as 10010056[15].
- Bloom filter's uses is recorded as hashing[16].
- Bloom filter's defining formula is recorded as p=\left(1-\left[1-{\frac {1}{m}}\right]^{kn}\right)^{k}\approx \left(1-e^{-kn/m}\right)^{k}[17].
- Bloom filter's Quora topic ID is recorded as Bloomfilter[18].
- Bloom filter's Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID is recorded as bloomFilter[19].
- Bloom filter's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[20].
- Bloom filter's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 147224247[21].
- Bloom filter's does not have effect is recorded as type II error[22].
- Bloom filter's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C147224247[23].
- Bloom filter's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 46870[24].
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Works and Contributions
Bloom filter is credited with the discovery of Burton Howard Bloom[3].
Why It Matters
Bloom filter draws 1,129 Wikipedia views per month (approximate_membership_query_filter category, ranking #1 of 3).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]