README.md
1# Perks for Go (golang.org)
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3Perks contains the Go package quantile that computes approximate quantiles over
4an unbounded data stream within low memory and CPU bounds.
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6For more information and examples, see:
7http://godoc.org/github.com/bmizerany/perks
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9A very special thank you and shout out to Graham Cormode (Rutgers University),
10Flip Korn (AT&T Labs–Research), S. Muthukrishnan (Rutgers University), and
11Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs–Research) for their research and publication of
12[Effective Computation of Biased Quantiles over Data Streams](http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~muthu/bquant.pdf)
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14Thank you, also:
15* Armon Dadgar (@armon)
16* Andrew Gerrand (@nf)
17* Brad Fitzpatrick (@bradfitz)
18* Keith Rarick (@kr)
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20FAQ:
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22Q: Why not move the quantile package into the project root?
23A: I want to add more packages to perks later.
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25Copyright (C) 2013 Blake Mizerany
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27Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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29The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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31THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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