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unbounded-for-shares-capped-for-lists

A top-N query is right for a list and wrong for a share-of-the-whole — the cut tail shrinks the denominator and the entropy normaliser, inflating concentration and diversity alike — so the same grouped data needs two queries with different bounds. Covers why the truncation is invisible in the result, why the unbounded query's ORDER BY becomes load-bearing, and when unbounded is actually safe. Use when a "top 5…

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