I tried that. And I receive a syntax error. Can you show me?
The below code would "work".
import sys
strings = set()
for line in sys.stdin:
words = line.split()
for word in words:
strings.add(word)
print("\nNumber of distinct elements:", len(strings))
By "work" I mean the code runs and calculates the exact number of distinct elements in the input.
However, this code definitely does not implement the Flajolet-Martin algorithm.