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Walk me through how you would deduplicate a 10-trillion...

To deduplicate a 10-trillion-token corpus, you must define the unit of deduplication (e.g., paragraph or document), the matching criteria (e.g., exact or fuzzy), and the action (e.g., discard or flag). Hash-based bucketing allows for O(n) complexity by partitioning data. Because memory is a constraint at this scale, Bloom filters are essential. You should use the sizing formula m ≈ −n ln PFP/(ln 2)2 to determine the required bit array size, leverage MurmurHash3 for hashing, and implement distributed sharding by hash prefix to parallelize the workload.

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