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A lookup (table) is an array that replaces run-time computation with a simpler array indexing operation. The savings in terms of processing time can be significant, since retrieving a value from memory is often faster than undergoing an 'expensive' computation or input/output operation. Over time the definition has become less strict, any kind of searching with a key value can be considered a lookup.

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Critique of Cardinal Direction Enum

are initialized in a simpler way: NORTH(0, "North"), EAST(90, "East"), SOUTH(180, "South"), WEST(270, "West") Apart from this, the code is pretty good, but, there is a way you can 'play' with the lookup
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Optimize text to ascii lookup map and scalability

This is one of those occasions where a 'sparse' dataset may be very helpful. But, first some nit-picks: You should probably call the class AsciiLetters instead of AciiLetters Declaring multiple con …
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