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by aidos 4616 days ago
I get the concept - you're trading space for certainty. It's more the bit where it says:

    "The more hash functions you have, the slower your bloom filter, and the quicker it fills up. *If you have too few, however, you may suffer too many false positives.*"
Just made me wonder - couldn't badly chosen hash functions actually give you more false positives?