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In this work, we seek to investigate whether bridging the seeming communication gap between two different domains of computer science may pave the way to richer fundamental insights.
"Model Counting Meets Distinct Elements," by A. Pavan et al., gives a surprising connection between model counting and streaming, providing a generic transformation of data stream algorithms for F0 estimation to algorithms for…