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Hypergraphs are neat; I used them to implement a perfect hash library in C: https://github.com/tpn/perfecthash.

Neat! Forgive my ignorance, but what does a perfect hash table (which I came across by skimming your project) buy the user? Even with distinct hashes, is there a way to enable random access to the element without an arbitrarily large array?

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