Re: speedy way to compare elements in pairs of arrays?

A thousand billion pairs of arrays to compare? Even if comparing thousand pairs of arrays only takes 1 second (which is extremely fast given that you must read them from some form of external storage), it would take you more than 30 years to do so.

Where are you storing all these arrays? Suppose one array is only 1000 bytes long, you will need 2 x 10**15 bytes of storage at least (that is 2 million billion bytes of storage, or 2 thousand terabytes), not taking into account any overhead. Are you sure about your figures?

CountZero

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