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The challenge was:

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We get a list of up to 50 activities and an associated calorie value for each (either positive or negative), we need to find a subset of activities where the sum of all the calorie values is zero.

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Did anyone else here immediately think to write a function hard coded to return the empty set?




Hehe yes, and I feel kinda bad for that. I think it's some permanent damage that I picked up from pair programming using unit tests and my desire to troll my pair partner into doing all the actual typing.




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