Category: ComputerScience
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Counting the uncountable with Hyperloglog – an algorithm that estimates billions of unique visitors with kilobytes of memory
The Magic of Approximation Imagine you’re running a social media platform with millions of users and want to know how many unique visitors you had this month. However, storing every IP address would require gigabytes of memory – a bit too much for a simple counter, isn’t it? Well, there is an algorithm that can…
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Integers and floating point numbers in memory – definitive intermediate guide
Have you ever wondered how a floating point number like *3.14159* is internally stored in computer memory? This article explains the industry standard solution to this problem – the IEE754.