thats all I had to do 😥

"competitive programming" approach :))

i'm actually crying rn

Thank you for the thorough explaination,
I can guess the pattern but I love the mathematical explaintion better

Use spoiler flag next time.

I actually like the explanation in the comments!

It helps explain it in a good way, better than some wiki article :)

now I think better be just link to some wiki article, instead of tedious manual copy-paste -)

Good content

hilarious

first misunderstood task, second - forget to simplify solution ^.^

The comments in your solution make me ignore it and move on.

Commenting code which does magic now considered a bad practice? By who?
If it's math magic, it is still magic.
Names trick does not help here at all, btw.

Are you trolling? This is a one line function which is 8 characters long. We have no control over the function name/ file name. Explaining the programming language/ framework, or in this example, plain old math, is considered a bad practice.

You may argue that because 'it is helpful to translate the meaning of some obscure argument or return value into something that’s readable.' Or that 'when [the code] is part of the standard library, or incode that you cannot alter, then a helpful clarifying comment can be useful.'

But to explain math to a future programmer in the comments would be considered harmful noise. This is because important comments will just be ignored after a while.

The adage: 'Don’t Use a Comment When You Can Use a Function or a Variable' is applicable here. I convert this block to english like so: 'To sum the row of odd numbers, I cube the row index'. I cannot see any value in adding a comment here.

Yes, indeed. Do not write comments where code is clean.

But...

How can clean code in this example explain anything? Why you should believe this code is right?
Another people said so?