From: ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk   
      
   Richard Heathfield  writes:   
      
   > On 24/11/2022 12:06 am, Ben Bacarisse wrote:   
   >> Tim Rentsch  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> I think this problem would make a good interview question,   
   >>> provided care were taken to phrase it so the subtleties were   
   >>> still there, but possible points of confusion were reduced.   
   >>> Not that I know how to do that... :)   
   >> I didn't make a good job of presenting it.  It certainly didn't pique   
   >> anyone else's interest, but then comp.programming is not well populated.   
   >> One thing that struck me was that I had not come across this before.  I   
   >> was surprised that this was not one of those idioms that one absorbs   
   >> along the way.  I suppose it is of limited use.   
   >   
   > The trouble is that it comes across as "is y >= x and <= z?", which is   
   > about as simple as it gets.   
      
   I am saddened that you think I would have made a hash of that and amazed   
   that you could think I had never have come across such a thing   
   before. :-(   
      
   I would have thought that   
      
     "Consider any ordered measure that "wraps round" -- bearings in   
     degrees, minutes in the hour, indeed hours in either the 12 or 24 hour   
     clock."   
      
   might have suggested it was not any old start <= x < end problem.  How   
   would you have phrased it so as to avoid the confusion?   
      
   Anyway, the take-away is that the size of the range is not part of the   
   problem and that no modulo operations are involved.  I found that mildly   
   interesting.   
      
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   Ben.   
      
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