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reason enough to fail the interview (lemmy.world)
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A picture of Edsger Dijkstra with a concerned face and the following text on top: How software engineers look at your code when you solve the problem using two tables — instead of using the Maxwell-Ross-Karmakar algorithm, which is marginally optimal in ordered sets bijectable to the exponential curve
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[–] 15 points 2 months ago*

IIRC, Elite used lookup tables for trigonometric functions on certain target platforms (maybe the NES) because memory wasn't as much of a constraint as computing performance. It's a barrel of game compressed into a pint of code.

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