Bloom filters are an essential class of probabilistic data structures designed for rapid set membership testing while minimising memory usage. By utilising multiple hash functions, these structures ...

A search algorithm used to quickly determine if an item of data is present. Developed by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970, the Bloom filter is a long binary string of 0s. New data items are hashed using ...

Perhaps the most obvious way to build a spell checker is by simply looking up each word in a dictionary. With modern hardware this wouldn’t be too hard, but disks in the ’70s were extremely slow and ...