TADM2E 2.43

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Whether we know <math>n</math> or not we can sample <math>k</math> values uniformly by assigning a random value to each element, sorting, and taking the top <math>k</math> values. However, this is not very efficient so instead we can use a <i>priority queue</i> of size <math>k</math> with random priority.

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