[hardlianotion]

One needs a little domain knowledge for "inverse square" to be informative. It is a simple-minded interviewer that wouldn't just explain the concept.

Unless you are hiring someone that is supposed to understand some maths, that is.

[gbrown]

What does it mean to implement it in code though? What kind of data should it consume - n-dimensional coordinates, distance matrices, some sort of power level to calculate falloff? If it’s as described, it’s way too vague. Inverse square laws show up all over.

[hardlianotion]

Well, yes - I agree.