/**
 * A Bloom filter for instances of {@code T}. A Bloom filter offers an approximate containment test
 * with one-sided error: if it claims that an element is contained in it, this might be in error,
 * but if it claims that an element is <i>not</i> contained in it, then this is definitely true.
 *
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