4 ms·

Yes but you would only need to visit 32 of them, so it would run much faster (around a hundred million times faster).

• Retr0id 3y ago
  I think Scarblac's point is that using a > comparison would be cheating, and you'd have to do that as a series of 4 billion if/else statements too.
  • sltkr 3y ago
    Fair enough, comparisons are dangerously close to arithmetic and we can't have any of that.