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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by andioop@programming.dev to c/programming_horror@programming.dev

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[–] odium@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried seeing if the recursive approach runs faster?

[–] noddy@beehaw.org 13 points 11 months ago

I know an even better way. We can make it run in O(1) by using a lookup table. We only need to store 2^64 booleans in an array first.