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In this paper we survey recent advances in the area of sublinear-time algorithms.
This survey is a slightly updated version of a survey that appeared inBulletin of the EATCS, 89: 23–47, June 2006.
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Czumaj, A., Sohler, C. (2010). Sublinear-time Algorithms. In: Goldreich, O. (eds) Property Testing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6390. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16367-8_5
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