Ikr !!

It doesn't care at all.

Apologies for the late reply.

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You declared a variable without initializing it and used its "value" afterwards. That's undefined behavior (an uninitialized variable is not guaranteed to have initial value 0).

Apologies for the late reply, I just tried your solution as-is and it passed all the tests under 11000 ms on the first attempt. Perhaps try resubmitting a few times?

Hi @imago.dei,

Please post your solution below using Markdown code blocks so I may review it and perhaps provide a few hints (I assume you're attempting this Kata in JavaScript?).

Cheers :)

That's weird, I've tried my js solution in typescript and it passed with no problem. Why don't you post your code using proper markdown and marking your post as having spoiler content?
If your code is failing only some random tests I would tell you check the note:

Note: a and b are not ordered!

Tests pass without issue, but submitting fails all random tests in Typescript. I've written an astronomical amount of my own tests, which are all passing. When submitting my answer, it tells me expected 0 to equal x, where x is the expected result. Mathematically, this doesn't make sense, especially when my tests themselves are passing

I'm getting the same errors

Why not write the description in a language-agnostic way?

Been doing JS a long time. This is the best practice for this problem

Am I missing something? All three columns are 128 bytes long by default.