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Hm, I think elegant here does not mean classy or fancy. It instead means "ingenious and simple" so an elegant solution is in fact a hammer.

Likewise, I think of efficiency as the resources used to accomplish something. While a nail driver would be fast, it isn't really efficient. An efficient solution is also a hammer.

And of course the hammer is the effective solution.




Cubes are simpler than hammers, was the point.




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