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+/**********************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2018 Pieter Wuille, Greg Maxwell, Gleb Naumenko      *
+ * Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying   *
+ * file LICENSE or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.*
+ **********************************************************************/
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <assert.h>
+#include "../include/minisketch.h"
+
+int main(void) {
+
+  minisketch *sketch_a = minisketch_create(12, 0, 4);
+
+  for (int i = 3000; i < 3010; ++i) {
+    minisketch_add_uint64(sketch_a, i);
+  }
+
+  size_t sersize = minisketch_serialized_size(sketch_a);
+  assert(sersize == 12 * 4 / 8); // 4 12-bit values is 6 bytes.
+  unsigned char *buffer_a = malloc(sersize);
+  minisketch_serialize(sketch_a, buffer_a);
+  minisketch_destroy(sketch_a);
+
+  minisketch *sketch_b = minisketch_create(12, 0, 4); // Bob's own sketch
+  for (int i = 3002; i < 3012; ++i) {
+    minisketch_add_uint64(sketch_b, i);
+  }
+
+  sketch_a = minisketch_create(12, 0, 4);     // Alice's sketch
+  minisketch_deserialize(sketch_a, buffer_a); // Load Alice's sketch
+  free(buffer_a);
+
+  // Merge the elements from sketch_a into sketch_b. The result is a sketch_b
+  // which contains all elements that occurred in Alice's or Bob's sets, but not
+  // in both.
+  minisketch_merge(sketch_b, sketch_a);
+
+  uint64_t differences[4];
+  ssize_t num_differences = minisketch_decode(sketch_b, 4, differences);
+  minisketch_destroy(sketch_a);
+  minisketch_destroy(sketch_b);
+  if (num_differences < 0) {
+    printf("More than 4 differences!\n");
+  } else {
+    ssize_t i;
+    for (i = 0; i < num_differences; ++i) {
+      printf("%u is in only one of the two sets\n", (unsigned)differences[i]);
+    }
+  }
+}