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3 LeetCode One-Liners That Look Easy (But Can Make One P*ss Their Pants In A Tech Interview)

3 LeetCode One-Liners That Look Easy (But Can Make One P*ss Their Pants In A Tech Interview)

LeetCode One-liner Array Questions That Look Easy At First Glance But Are Tricky Enough To Crash A Tech Interview

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Here are 3 LeetCode one-liner array questions that look easy at first glance but are tricky enough to crash a tech interview.

#1: Convert A Non-negative Integer To Its English Word Representation

The question sounds simple but has a tricky solution.

Given a number (num), write a function that converts it into its corresponding English word representation (string).

For example, for 1234567, its English representation is One Million Two Hundred Thirty Four Thousand Five Hundred Sixty Seven.

Let’s implement it.

We start with writing out a base case for zero.

if num == 0:
    return "Zero"

Next, we create some predefined word lists that map numbers into words.

less_than_20 = ["", "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine", "Ten", 
    "Eleven", "Twelve", "Thirteen", "Fourteen", "Fifteen", "Sixteen", "Seventeen", 
    "Eighteen", "Nineteen"]

tens = ["", "Ten", "Twenty", "Thirty", "Forty", "Fifty", "Sixty", "Seventy", "Eighty", "Ninety"]

thousands…

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