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Re:How to Interview Engineers by saagarjha on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:10AM (#14643325)
Would you mind explaining in a bit more detail what you mean here? I'm not quite sure where you're getting those numbers from.
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Re:How to Interview Engineers by taejo on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:36AM (#14643407)
They mean 10^9 and 10^6, and that each "operation" in a complex algorithm is often something like a hash-table lookup, which may be constant time, but takes closer to 1000 clock cycles than 1.
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Re:How to Interview Engineers by saagarjha on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:44PM (#14648071)
Ahh, I got it. For whatever reason I didn't associate 109->10^9 and 106->10^6.
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Re:How to Interview Engineers by taejo on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @09:28AM (#14653862)
No worries, it took me a little while to figure out, too.
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