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1. gnuvin+(OP)[view] [source] 2019-11-11 01:06:25
The problem statement said that the input would be natural numbers.
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2. lifthr+H6[view] [source] 2019-11-11 02:54:32
>>gnuvin+(OP)
Wait, do natural numbers include zero? evil grin
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3. talake+He[view] [source] [discussion] 2019-11-11 04:59:09
>>lifthr+H6
No support for that in Sloane's. https://oeis.org/A000027
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4. chopin+EH[view] [source] [discussion] 2019-11-11 11:59:07
>>lifthr+H6
I looked up wikipedia which says there's no conclusive definition.
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5. lifthr+kJ[view] [source] [discussion] 2019-11-11 12:14:16
>>chopin+EH
The joke is that, if you don't need to check if the input is negative because it is not a natural number, you can also choose a definition of the natural number without zero to avoid special casing it at all.
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