c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · groctel@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026 18:43

reason enough to fail the interview

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A picture of Edsger Dijkstra with a concerned face and the following text on top: How software engineers look at your code when you solve the problem using two tables — instead of using the Maxwell-Ross-Karmakar algorithm, which is marginally optimal in ordered sets bijectable to the exponential curve

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@serenissi@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

disappointing. no such algorithm.

yeah I looked it up

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- @Tja@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
  
  Good news, you can invent it!
  
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- @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 31 Aug 2026 · edited
  
  Bijecting to an exponential curve was also a hint. Anything that bijects to an exponential would just biject to the positive reals, since that’s how logarithms work.
  
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