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Am I missing something or sorting is n.log(n) when the sum trick is linear time? In the lack of additional constraint, sorting seems massively overkill. Not s
by whiplash451 4y ago
Am I missing something or sorting is n.log(n) when the sum trick is linear time?
In the lack of additional constraint, sorting seems massively overkill.
Not sure why you are saying that sorting is simpler than the sum trick.
- paulsutter 4y agoThe author spent days thinking about it, whereas sorting is the immediate obvious answer. Developer time is massively more valuable than computer time by a factor of 1000 And the clever approach only works on data that is perfect, and that’s extremely rare in the real world This is a hypersophomoric question