Someone asked me this week if I would help him with a graph theory problem on 8-Bit machines. The first task was to get all permutations of 1 to 9. Since the total permutations is 9! (362,880) I knew this would take a while.
Learning without learning, the standard library problem There are no shortcuts to pretty much anything worth doing. If you fail to learn the basics, then when you get to more advanced things, the basics will feel like black magic, and the thing you’re working on will only make sense on the surface.
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