[scottyelich]

I did an interview problem like this a while back (was about combining CIDR blocks) and I found an answer on the Internet. I coded up a similar solution (I used a slightly different data structure with a slight optimization just to show I didn't copy the algorithm exactly). The place actually complemented me on my Google foo as they claimed they asked the question because they knew (thought?) people couldn't look up the answer. Of course, they dinged me by saying my code had too many comments (nevermind I was detailing WHY and HOW my algorithm was different from the Google results). I didn't get any love for the man(1) page I made either. Oh well, can't please everyone. :-)