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skybriantoday at 2:19 PM1 replyview on HN

Finding a thinning seems like a restricted version of a diff algorithm where you only delete things? The thinning is a diff represented as bits. This isn't very compact, but you could run-length encode it.


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philzooktoday at 2:56 PM

Interesting. I think there is even more similarity if you are trying to find a "best" list from which two other lists are thinned.