Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1025#issuecomment-50109108
Well, the other "sample" functions are already approximate anyway. I kind
of like this here because it conveys that it's more expensive. The other thing
is that if we want the Exact one to be experimental, we can't just make it a
parameter.
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