apparently omitting var is very bad practice in the js, gotta lay off the python

I was actually hoping for someone to provide original input and enrich the conversation

I don't mean to hijack the thread but what are DFS and BFS, some kind of standard pathfinding algorithms?

Is there a better/faster way to flatten the string into a list of integers?
I could not make python strip the newline characters and use list comprehension

You're my hero. I really need to get comfy with bitwise operations.

I just went around that by using // since we know it's always even
By the way that formula was bloody hard come up with

I find it elegant because of the single loop which does remind me of actual tape :)
It's a bit hard to follow exactly what is going on tho :)

Yeah, I wish it had asked for a few hundred thousand random ones up to a million instead :)

@FArekkusu - A simple "No, I'm sorry if it seemed that way" would have gone much further than another point by point tirade.
I don't mind being corrected and I don't mind admitting when I'm wrong so long as the conversation remains friendly.

On the first point - I will have to time that before I believe it.
On the second one - how about a normal programmer?
TBH I'm getting a little tired of hearing python has a special way to do X

@FArrekusu - is there some kind of animosity between us? You seem to be going out of your way to correct me and not being overly polite about it.

Then I stand corrected, thank you.
I still don't like that it puts the condition after the if_true code

I should have explained myself better:
It doesn't use the classic condition ? if_true : if_false format but the A = X if true else Y which I find less explicit and much less powerful as it's only useful for value assignment, you can't for instance do condition ? x += 1 : callFoo()

I personally considered it but opted out as I find it less readable, too bad python doesn't have a true ternary operator i.e:
total += (value >= last ? value : -value)

...wait I thought it said 2 weeks not 2 years, sorry :)

My intuition was that it would be faster but it seems it doesn't matter much at least in this case.
I will do some timing tests to get to the bottom of this.