These "hardware addressing" pins are not for addressing words in the RAM, but rather to select the address of the whole device on the IIC bus. The manufacturer realizes that you might want to have several of these chips on the same IIC bus, which means they each need a different IIC bus address. These pins allow you to pick one of 8 pre-defined addresses for each chip, depending on whether you tie these address lines high or low.
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