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IntroductionWhy 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers and my comment on HN generated a lot of responses, so much so that I'm writing this post to properly explain the essence of a good (IMHO) interview programming problem.Pascal's TrianglePascal's Triangle is a shortcut for getting coefficients most often used binomial probability. The root element is 1. Every other element is the sum of the one or two above it (diagonally left and diagonally right).There are several variations of the problem:Print out the triangle to a specific row;Return a given row of the triangle;Return ...

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