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BobJanova3-Feb-12 5:31
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It's not that similar because the reason you wouldn't store every word* in a dictionary is because words have associations that you can exploit to organise the data. In particular, words tend to share their beginnings and therefore you can create some form of tree-like structure which can chop off large sections of the search space, and cut down on duplication.

As stated in the problem, the plates are entirely uniformly distributed in the search space and that means you can't do that.

(*: to be honest you probably would, a word list is going to be measured in megabytes and even on a phone these days that's not even close to a problem)
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