[GitHub] [accumulo] milleruntime commented on issue #2371: listSplits table operation with a max num splits may have a bug.

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milleruntime commented on issue #2371:
URL: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/2371#issuecomment-982974602


   I was talking with @ctubbsii a bit about some of the issues the many different use cases that can be encountered with splitting data evenly and the work I was doing for #2368. Instead of us trying to write our own algorithms, maybe we can use a library. He suggested taking a look at the Apache Datasketches project, for help with mathematical algorthims such as this. One type in particular that might be useful is the quantiles in ItemsSketch: https://datasketches.apache.org/api/java/snapshot/apidocs/org/apache/datasketches/quantiles/ItemsSketch.html#getQuantiles-int-


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