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Soheil1 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
To first order
Hi.
In
to first order, the raison d'être of Bloom filters is exactly the same as a hash table. It supports super fast
inserts, super fast look ups.
What does "to first order" mean?
In
to first order, the raison d'être of Bloom filters is exactly the same as a hash table. It supports super fast
inserts, super fast look ups.
What does "to first order" mean?
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g. org/wiki/Orders_of_approximation , but which is also used more loosely to mean "to a reasonable approximation, ignoring finer details". It seems here that the latter meaning is intended, since a raison d'être is not a mathematical object.
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- org/wiki/Orders_of_approximation , but which is also used more loosely to mean "to a reasonable approximation, ignoring finer details".
- It seems here that the latter meaning is intended, since a raison d'être is not a mathematical object.
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It probably refers to a first-order approximation, which is a mathematical concept described e.g. at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_approximation , but which is also used more loosely to mean "to a reasonable approximation, ignoring finer details". It seems here that the latter meaning is i
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Better wording of the rest of the sentence is
eg . . . the raison d'etre of Bloom filters is exactly the same as that (ie the raison d'etre) of a hash table. It supports super fast inserts, super fast look ups.
- "Raison d'être", The accent is commonly omitted.
Better wording of the rest of the sentence is
eg . . . the raison d'etre of Bloom filters is exactly the same as that (ie the raison d'etre) of a hash table. It supports super fast inserts, super fast look ups.
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