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can compute the assignment for the current cluster size in isolation.
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So the same construction simultaneously gives a stateless consistent-hashing
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-ranking and a fully reproducible, addressable reservoir sample.
+ranking and a fully reproducible, addressable reservoir sample. Conversely,
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+reservoir sampling provides another way to view consistent hashing with
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+replication: it is the unique `k`-out-of-`n` growth process where each new node
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+joins the active set with probability `k/(n+1)`, evicts at most one old node,
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+and preserves a uniform active set after every growth step.
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## N-Choose-K replication
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