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by raverbashing 4121 days ago
In this case your dictionary either doesn't have everything or to adequately point to it you take as much space as not using it.

While Pi has all pairs of 2 digits, your index would take more space than storing the pairs itself (because you might need to go beyond position 99)

For one situation you might "get lucky" and find a coincidence, but this won't scale generically

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See also: https://github.com/philipl/pifs and https://github.com/philipl/pifs/issues/23

I admit this fooled me for a bit. Good news is, I won't be fooled again by something similar :)