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Comment by IshKebab

7 hours ago

You can for simple algorithms. It's just really easy for interviewers to overestimate how simple an algorithm is when they have been told the answer.

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shmerl  7 hours ago

Yeah, that's exactly the point. These kind of algorithms are far from easy to invent even if they look simple once they are known.

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