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Comment by thomasahle

10 hours ago

Interview:

> We can solve this with a constraint solver

Ok, using your favorite constraint solver, please write a solution for this.

> [half an hour later]

Ok, now how would you solve it if there was more than 100 data points? E.g. 10^12?

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thomasahle

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nemetroid  7 hours ago

Maybe some preprocessing, maybe column generation, depends on the problem.

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