someone tried to make one line solution but failed

Oh God You're Right

When an Assembly programmer tries C++

You used recursion while I can't even comprehend them in their best use-cases. Bruh how do you even thinks like this

Thanks! I get it now

Smallest solution w/o any modules! Great job :D

It is called (un)packing. You can assign a list to several variables in one line and vice versa.
Star operator on right side is used to unpack a list ; on left side it is used to pack it.

my_list = [1, 2, 3]
a, b, c = *my_list  # Unpacking -> a = 1; b = 2; c = 3
first, *others = my_list  # Partial packing -> first = 1; others = my_list[1:] = [2, 3]

More into Python docs and PEP-448 (Unpacking generalizations).

Least keystrokes solution. AMAZING! Please please explain how this works. How are the 3 variables assigned different values? Why *p, not p?

thanks!

There is no decimal part, so no .0. You choose the greater prefix you actually exceed:

• 100,000 ohms don't exceed 1Mohms => 100k ohms
• 100,000,000 ohms exceed 1kohms and 1Mohms, choose the greater => 100M ohms

Could anyone help me with the prefix part? How does it choose k vs M? Also, in cases of 5.0, how is the '.0' eliminated?

Least keystrokes solution. Well done.

Thanks, this is honestly new to me

Very clever :D