Let's say I have no more than a few hundred UUIDs, the set of which will only be updated rarely. Let's furthermore say I want to, at runtime, check if an arbitrary UUID belongs to said predefined set.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

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