I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments, criticizing this fresh programmer’s attempt to solve a classical problem in computer science. The modulus operation.
  • bjorney@lemmy.ca
    18·
    1 year ago

    Yeah but then ALL even numbers would be slow to compute because you would have to chain through every odd before you know that 2 is even.

    Depends on the expected distribution of input values