On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:55 PM, <jrlc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 00:42:02 UTC+1, Paul Rubin wrote: >> Ron Aaron posted the below url on comp.lang.forth. It points to what I >> thought was a cute problem, along with his solution in his Forth dialect >> 8th: >> >> https://8th-dev.com/forum/index.php/topic,1584.msg8720.html >> >> I wrote a solution in Forth and additional ones in Python and Haskell >> and thought people here might like trying it themselves. I'll post my >> Python version here in a few days if anyone wants to see it. Time limit >> for the problem is supposed to be 45 minutes. I spent a lot longer >> because I ended up writing several versions in various languages. > > I dont think its cute at all. > how did the interview go?
Yeah, seems to me this is basically just asking "have you ever heard of an interval tree (or can you invent one on the fly)". -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list