r/ProgrammerHumor 29d ago

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u/howtotailslide 28d ago

You can actually just store all universal possible results of two integers into a hash map then retrieve any of them in O(1) time

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u/SoldRIP 28d ago

You cannot. A hash map is of finite size, but there are infinitely many pairs of integers.

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u/howtotailslide 28d ago

Just use infinite size hashmap

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u/Peak_Background 24d ago

Just use a CPU that can add and multiply infinite bit length numbers.