This kind of interview questions come from the mind of software developers, because that's the only thing they know how to do. When faced with some new area of

This kind of interview questions come from the mind of software developers, because that's the only thing they know how to do. When faced with some new area of knowledge, their instinct is to try to implement that in Python or some other language and imagine they have "learned" it. It doesn't occur to them that implementing things is not that helpful when it comes to most math topics.