@coderman1018 not the right place but I don't have any other; I don't understand why you edited one of my kata. Your changes are useless and above all your new "title" was incorrect.

The default sort is ascending. The minus makes the greater numbers smaller, e.g. 10 is greater than 5,
but -10 is less than -5. Minus naturally reverses the order of sort. Got it?

Don't feel bad about your if statement, this solution with an unnecessary dict creation is slower than your if block.

Thank you for bringing this out!

It's taken a while for this to click, but now I totally understand it. Thank you very much!

elegant and simple to understand - nice one!

I didn't know you could chain sub string slice with a reversal afterwards via seperate square brackets, I was getting caught up having it all in the same brackets, which was causing all kinds of fun :)

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Sheesh that's a great solution. Well done 👍

yes, you're right, it stops checking the condition after AND. The topic is called 'short circuiting'.