Can you solve it? The science of streaming
by Alex Bellos from Science | The Guardian on (#69G7X)
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Today's puzzle is tricky! I mean trickle-y. It is all about streams.
The source of the puzzle is a streaming algorithm', which is a type of procedure in computer science that analyses data as it arrives in a stream, rather than waiting for the data to be stored in a memory.
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