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thaumasiotes on Sept 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: How percentile approximation works and why it's mo...

> but "huge" means "more than you can store"

Really? Where's it coming from?

namrog84 on Sept 14, 2021 | [–]

I think they mean having more than you can store simultaneously on a single device.

With a few exceptions this is pretty common scenario.

Dylan16807 on Sept 14, 2021 | [–]

More than you can store.

And possibly it's live data.

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