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<h3>Theta Sketch Merging (Union) Algorithm Notes</h3>
<p>There is a fairly simple argument for the correctness of our
space-limited multiway merging algorithm.</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Let R be the result of the theta union algorithm as described in the
<a href="https://github.com/apache/datasketches-website/tree/master/docs/pdf/ThetaSketchFramework.pdf">Theta Sketch Framework</a> paper.
It is the set of all hashes less than the minimum of the
thetas of all of the input sketches. Recall that there is no size
limit on this “full-size” answer R.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>We will spell out the official definition of “theta union with cutback”, which
establishes the 1-Goodness of its implicit TCF, and hence its unbiasedness.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>We will prove that the cut-back answer according to this official
definition can be computed from the X smallest elements of the
full-sized result R, for some value of X that doesn’t need to
be spelled out in this high-level overview of the argument.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>We assume the existence of a gadget G that keeps at least the X
smallest elements of any set that you feed into it.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>We point out that if A and B are any two sets such that each element
of B is bigger than any element of A, and if (A U B) is fed into G,
then G’s output, which by definition contains at least the X smallest
elements of (A U B), also contains at least the X smallest elements of A.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Finally, we point out that our main merging loop feeds all elements of
R into G, and also some other elements, each bigger than any element
of R. [These larger elements are inserted because for a while we only have
an upper bound on the final value of theta.] By (5), the output of G
contains at least the X smallest elements of R. By (3), we are able to
construct the answer conforming to (2).</p>
</li>
</ol>
<hr />
<p>Note: to avoid extreme verbosity in the above, the phrase
“the X smallest elements of S”
is used as an abbreviation for the more accurate phrase
“the X smallest elements of S if |S| &gt;= X, otherwise all of S”.</p>
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