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Comment by IshKebab

18 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  18 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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