smart either way.

You've responded to a comment from 6 years ago.

I would do that, as it takes excess processing time and memory, and that surely must be avoided to be "the best practice".

no, if int can be in different position than 0

have you used timeit to compare the performance of your Counter() solution with this one? I personally believe that your solution could be 10X slower.

overkill

Time complexity is O(n^2), would not consider it as 'best practices' while there are more optimal solutions (e.g. see Counter).

BC stands for bash calculator as far as I know.Bash on its own is not capable of floating point aritmetics. Have I claimed that my sollution was clever or best practice? The point is to solve things using the given language, OP is lucky test container comes witn python interpreter installed. We wouldn’t have this discussion if it wasn’t.

How is using the bc programming language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_(programming_language) in a shell exercise supposed to be clever/best practice? Why didn't you use pure shell?

How using python in shell excercise is supposed to be clever?

Suposedly smart code, but what is the actual point? What if the input is -lt 0 or a something other than integer?

;)

and JS community is even worse about that x) ;)

The triumph of form over content :) I'm often shocked when looking on the sollutions. Python community will do everything to write the shortest code possible, even if it is completely unreadable and inneficient. I've noticed that I've started doing the same...

It makes no sense to sort the set, dictionaries in python are unordered.