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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-2148:
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Github user ggevay commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/910#issuecomment-121654093
> -Why the output of the distinct methods are not DataStream
They do output DataStream. (<T> is their generic parameter.)
> -Why don't we have a distinct method that does not take a field-position,
so counting the true distinct elements in the stream
That's a good idea, I have added it now.
> Approximately calculate the number of distinct elements of a stream
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> Key: FLINK-2148
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2148
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Streaming
> Reporter: Gabor Gevay
> Assignee: Gabor Gevay
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: statistics
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> In the paper
> http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~minilek/papers/f0.pdf
> Kane et al. describes an optimal algorithm for estimating the number of
> distinct elements in a data stream.
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