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by creato 2708 days ago
> But you are expected to find the most optimal solution to a problem, and not just a brute force one.

I'm not talking about brute force solutions. For many problems, there are things in between <famous algorithm> and brute force. Some problems offer simplifications over more general problems where <famous algorithm> is strictly worse than a simpler, more customized solution (same efficiency, but simpler to write and understand).