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Will the arrays have equal numbers of values?

Unimportant.

Will there be repeated values in teh individual arrays (1, 1, 10, 20, ...)?

Possibly.

Could the arrays fit in (virtual) memory or are they disk based and too big?

They will fit in memory.


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