please use the spoiler flag when posting anything related to the solution

thanks

It feels like cheating 😂

What's the time complexity of this solution?

Which part of "There's binary search solution" did you just miss? :P

Sorry, but which part of "adhoc method" did you just miss? :P

If you solve it with algorithm this is a binary search problem with O(log n) solution. Considering sum of cubes must not exceed unsigned 64 bit integer, answer is found in 17 steps at worst case.

This answer is O(n) solution. Worst case scenario is at roughly 92682 steps. Are you calling it clever?

You can either solve this problem with math formula or using adhoc method.
For math formula, you can see solution of g964, which is the most clever.
My solution is for adhoc method.
And since raw loop is hard to follow, so code without raw loop is better practices, hence the votes here.

Morse code table as JSON

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Why do people keep upvoting inefficient implementations as best practice and clever?