Bloom filter in JavaScript

<p>A Bloom filter is a simple yet powerful data structure. It allows you to answer the question have you seen this before? in a very fast and memory efficient way. Unlike a regular set, a Bloom filter only needs to store a few bits per item instead of storing the whole thing. The trick is, a Bloom filter will be able to tell you if something is not present in the set with 100% certainty, but if you ask it if something is present in the set, you might get a false positive. That means the response could be true, even if the item was never stored in the set.</p>

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