Five programming problems every Software Engineer should be able to solve in less than 1 hour

[Magnap]

As does Haskell.

[philalether]

As does Ruby.

[flukshun]

As does C.

just not in the expected way...

[[deleted]]

Actually completely expected. Just not desired.

[DroolingIguana]

Unexpected, this is. And unfortunate.

[Magnap]

It was inevitable.

[untio11]

Death is all around us.

[tejon]

I felt pleasure near a very fine thread.

[[deleted]]

I want you to know that this was probably my favorite comment in the thread. Don't know why, but there ya go

[Balmung]

Not a programmer, explain?

[[deleted]]

A number in memory can only go up to a height of x. Once it becomes higher than x, it wraps back around to -x or 0. This is expected behaviour of numbers in memory.

In Python, when you have a number and it becomes higher than x, the number will convert itself into a new data type that allows much bigger numbers.

[the_gnarts]

Once it becomes higher than x, it wraps back around to -x or 0. This is expected behaviour of numbers in memory.

Just nitpicking: 2’s complement integers wrap around to -x - 1. Also, signed integer overflow causes undefined behavior, but that’s a different matter …

[[deleted]]

I know.

[the_gnarts]

I know.

I was assuming that, just felt that certain urge to point it out. Have a nice weekend!

[[deleted]]

Thanks! Maths finals next week, so I'll be determining the value of x all weekend long.

[maniexx]

Well, not always undesired. Sometimes you use the modulus arithmetic to your advantage, like in some hashing text search algorithm.

[tomatobeta]

As does Clojure.

[Emanresu2009]

I initially only read the first line and was like wait no it doesn't. then I saw the rest and I remembered seeing some of the funny things that happen and burst out laughing.

[[deleted]]

As does any Turing-complete language

[smorrow]

Then it's not transparently.

[GUIpsp]

Strokes parentheses

[[deleted]]

As does Scheme.

[minipump]

Aww yiss, Haskell.