##bloom filter

Basic bloom filter with .insert() & .contains() methods. A bloom filter sits ontop of a data store and tells you the possibility that an element is actually contained in the data store. A good bloom filter does this with very low false positive rates. False positive rate depends on the size of the bloom filter See approximating rate

src/bin.rs creates a bloom filter of length 1000 and inserts 105 records with a 0% false-positive rate (there is 1 intentional duplicate).

approximating rate

This is a m = x, k = 3 bloom filter (where m is available slots and k is hashing functions) Approximation for bloom filters is (1- e^(-kn/m))^k)

src/bin.rs insert 105 elements, so (1 - e^(-315/1000)) ^ 3) yields ~ 2% A smaller size would lead to a much greater false positive rate (Inserting 105 elements into bloom filter with m = 255 lead to ~30% false positive rate)