L. Carter, R. W. Floyd, John Gill, G. Markowsky, M. Wegman
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Abstract
In this paper we consider the question of how much space is needed to represent a set. Given a finite universe U and some subset V (called the vocabulary), an exact membership tester is a procedure that for each element s in U determines if s is in V. An approximate membership tester is allowed to make mistakes: we require that the membership tester correctly accepts every element of V, but we allow it to also accept a small fraction of the elements of U - V.