I didn't know that one of the authors was Philippe Flajolet, one of the leads in developing of analytic combinatorics, a mathematical tool that simplified the a

I didn't know that one of the authors was Philippe Flajolet, one of the leads in developing of analytic combinatorics, a mathematical tool that simplified the analysis and the discovery of algorithms. Of course, the HyperLogLog paper is a pretty example of how powerful the tool is for analysis of algorithms with stochastic components. It's quite silly of me that I've used Redis and never figured out the PF prefix of functions.