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                            - For point queries, check candidates for true match
 
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                            - Hyper-dimensional range queries
 
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                            - Transform one 
 -dimensional range query to   one-dimensional range queries, one for each pyramid 
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                            - Difficult to find exact ranges
 
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                            - For pyramid 
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                            - For pyramid 
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                            - Requires further refinement
 
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                            - If true answer set is 
 , and   queries produce  , then   but not vice versa 
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