find the top K most frequent numbers in a data stream

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This is more of a data structure question rather than a coding question.

If I am fetching a data stream, i.e, I keep receiving float numbers once at a time, how should I keep track of the top K frequent numbers? Here my memory is 4G and I prefer to have less communication with hard drive unless necessary.

I think heap is good for updating the max and min. How should I design the data structure? Thanks

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