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by 400thecat 1638 days ago
what does procedurally generated mean in this particular context ?
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The data on a page are the results of running a function on the inputs of that page, not connecting to a database or anything.

view(coins = coins_with_prefix(query.page_num))

so, the site operator doesn’t need to go buy 2^256 bytes of hard drive space to store all the pages.