From c811056b2e27d0b8caba89253a45112e8a0ed31c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stormofice <58337328+stormofice@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:05:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add C# implementation for the approximate counting
algorithm
---
.../approximate_counting.md | 2 +
.../code/csharp/ApproximateCounting.cs | 71 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 73 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 contents/approximate_counting/code/csharp/ApproximateCounting.cs
diff --git a/contents/approximate_counting/approximate_counting.md b/contents/approximate_counting/approximate_counting.md
index 917e79922..b99f5455b 100644
--- a/contents/approximate_counting/approximate_counting.md
+++ b/contents/approximate_counting/approximate_counting.md
@@ -362,6 +362,8 @@ As we do not have any objects to count, we will instead simulate the counting wi
[import, lang:"julia"](code/julia/approximate_counting.jl)
{% sample lang="cpp" %}
[import, lang:"cpp"](code/c++/approximate_counting.cpp)
+{% sample lang="cs" %}
+[import, lang:"csharp"](code/csharp/ApproximateCounting.cs)
{% endmethod %}
### Bibliography
diff --git a/contents/approximate_counting/code/csharp/ApproximateCounting.cs b/contents/approximate_counting/code/csharp/ApproximateCounting.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff6e3ba34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contents/approximate_counting/code/csharp/ApproximateCounting.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+using System;
+
+namespace ApproximateCounting
+{
+ class ApproximateCounting
+ {
+ static readonly Random Rng = new();
+
+ // This function takes
+ // - v: value in register
+ // - a: a scaling value for the logarithm based on Morris's paper
+ // It returns n(v,a), the approximate count
+ static double N(int v, double a)
+ {
+ return a * Math.Pow(1 + 1 / a, v - 1);
+ }
+
+ // This function takes
+ // - v: value in register
+ // - a: a scaling value for the logarithm based on Morris's paper
+ // It returns a new value for v
+ static int Increment(int v, double a)
+ {
+ var delta = 1 / (N(v + 1, a) - N(v, a));
+
+ if (Rng.NextDouble() <= delta)
+ return v + 1;
+ else
+ return v;
+ }
+
+ // This simulates counting and takes
+ // - noItems: number of items to count and loop over
+ // - a: a scaling value for the logarithm based on Morris's paper
+ // It returns n(v,a), the approximate count
+ static double ApproximateCount(int noItems, double a)
+ {
+ var v = 0;
+ for (var i = 0; i < noItems; i++)
+ {
+ v = Increment(v, a);
+ }
+ return N(v, a);
+ }
+
+ // This function takes
+ // - noTrials: the number of counting trials
+ // - noItems: the number of items to count to
+ // - a: a scaling value for the logarithm based on Morris's paper
+ // - threshold: the maximum percent error allowed
+ // It returns a "pass" / "fail" test value
+ static string TextApproximateCount(int noTrials, int noItems, double a, double threshold)
+ {
+ var sum = 0.0;
+ for (var i = 0; i < noTrials; i++)
+ sum += ApproximateCount(noItems, a);
+
+ var avg = sum / noTrials;
+
+ return Math.Abs((avg - noItems) / noItems) < threshold ? "pass" : "fail";
+ }
+
+ static void Main()
+ {
+ Console.WriteLine("Counting Tests, 100 trials");
+ Console.WriteLine($"Testing 1,000, a = 30, 1% error : {TextApproximateCount(100, 1_000, 30, 0.1)}");
+ Console.WriteLine($"Testing 12,345, a = 10, 1% error : {TextApproximateCount(100, 12_345, 10, 0.1)}");
+ Console.WriteLine($"Testing 222,222, a = 0.5, 10% error : {TextApproximateCount(100, 222_222, 0.5, 0.2)}");
+ }
+ }
+}
From 6e8c264156d53f4e0ab988633f4cc9145b2cf2aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stormofice <58337328+stormofice@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 22:05:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Changed comments to XML docstrings and standardize output
---
.../code/csharp/ApproximateCounting.cs | 54 ++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contents/approximate_counting/code/csharp/ApproximateCounting.cs b/contents/approximate_counting/code/csharp/ApproximateCounting.cs
index ff6e3ba34..d8df57c00 100644
--- a/contents/approximate_counting/code/csharp/ApproximateCounting.cs
+++ b/contents/approximate_counting/code/csharp/ApproximateCounting.cs
@@ -6,19 +6,17 @@ class ApproximateCounting
{
static readonly Random Rng = new();
- // This function takes
- // - v: value in register
- // - a: a scaling value for the logarithm based on Morris's paper
- // It returns n(v,a), the approximate count
+ /// value in register
+ /// scaling value for the logarithm based on Morris's paper
+ /// N(v,a) the approximate count for the given values
static double N(int v, double a)
{
return a * Math.Pow(1 + 1 / a, v - 1);
}
-
- // This function takes
- // - v: value in register
- // - a: a scaling value for the logarithm based on Morris's paper
- // It returns a new value for v
+
+ /// value in register
+ /// scaling value for the logarithm based on Morris's paper
+ /// Returns the new value for v
static int Increment(int v, double a)
{
var delta = 1 / (N(v + 1, a) - N(v, a));
@@ -29,10 +27,12 @@ static int Increment(int v, double a)
return v;
}
- // This simulates counting and takes
- // - noItems: number of items to count and loop over
- // - a: a scaling value for the logarithm based on Morris's paper
- // It returns n(v,a), the approximate count
+ ///
+ /// This function simulates approximate counting
+ ///
+ /// number of items to count and loop over
+ /// a scaling value for the logarithm based on Morris's paper
+ /// It returns n(v,a), the approximate count
static double ApproximateCount(int noItems, double a)
{
var v = 0;
@@ -40,32 +40,34 @@ static double ApproximateCount(int noItems, double a)
{
v = Increment(v, a);
}
+
return N(v, a);
}
- // This function takes
- // - noTrials: the number of counting trials
- // - noItems: the number of items to count to
- // - a: a scaling value for the logarithm based on Morris's paper
- // - threshold: the maximum percent error allowed
- // It returns a "pass" / "fail" test value
+ /// the number of counting trials
+ /// the number of items to count to
+ /// a scaling value for the logarithm based on Morris's paper
+ /// the maximum percent error allowed
+ /// "passed" or "failed" depending on the test result
static string TextApproximateCount(int noTrials, int noItems, double a, double threshold)
{
var sum = 0.0;
for (var i = 0; i < noTrials; i++)
sum += ApproximateCount(noItems, a);
-
+
var avg = sum / noTrials;
-
- return Math.Abs((avg - noItems) / noItems) < threshold ? "pass" : "fail";
+
+ return Math.Abs((avg - noItems) / noItems) < threshold ? "passed" : "failed";
}
static void Main()
{
- Console.WriteLine("Counting Tests, 100 trials");
- Console.WriteLine($"Testing 1,000, a = 30, 1% error : {TextApproximateCount(100, 1_000, 30, 0.1)}");
- Console.WriteLine($"Testing 12,345, a = 10, 1% error : {TextApproximateCount(100, 12_345, 10, 0.1)}");
- Console.WriteLine($"Testing 222,222, a = 0.5, 10% error : {TextApproximateCount(100, 222_222, 0.5, 0.2)}");
+ Console.WriteLine("[#]\nCounting Tests, 100 trials");
+ Console.WriteLine($"[#]\nTesting 1,000, a = 30, 1% error : {TextApproximateCount(100, 1_000, 30, 0.1)}");
+ Console.WriteLine($"[#]\nTesting 12,345, a = 10, 10% error : {TextApproximateCount(100, 12_345, 10, 0.1)}");
+ Console.WriteLine(
+ $"[#]\nTesting 222,222, a = 0.5, 20% error : {TextApproximateCount(100, 222_222, 0.5, 0.2)}");
}
}
}
+