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James_Blair comments on An attempt at a short no-prerequisite test for programming inclination - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: James_Blair 30 June 2013 01:44:28AM 12 points [-]

The trick is to evaluate right to left.

Comment author: AlexSchell 30 June 2013 01:28:58PM *  3 points [-]

I opted for doing this and also checking the answer once, as opposed to using notation.