我々の研究の動機は、AltaVista Web インデックスのソフトウェアが重複に近い文書を検出しフィルタリングするために実際に使用しているアルゴリズムに、このような族が (いくつかの緩和の下で) 不可欠であるという事実だった。しかし調査の過程でこの概念に関連する興味深く挑戦的な理論的問題を発見した。そのうちのいくつかについての解決策を提示し、残りの未解決問題はリスト化している。
*Digital SRC, 130 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA. E-mail: broder@pa.dec.com.
†Computer Science Department, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA. E-mail: moses@cs.stanford.edu. Part of this work was done while this author was a summer intern at Digital SRC. Supported by the Pierre and Christine Lamond Fellowship and in part by an ARO MURI Grant DAAH04-96-1-0007 and NSF Award CCR-9357849, with matching funds from IBM, Schlumberger Foundation, Shell Foundation, and Xerox Corporation.
‡Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA. Part of this work was done while this author was visiting Digital SRC. Supported in part by NSF grant CCR9530974. E-mail: af1p@andrew.cmu.edu
§Digital SRC, 130 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA. E-mail: michaelm@pa.dec.com.
The authors thank Noam Elkies for enlightening discussions regarding Farey series.
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