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		dhosek on June 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Code Faster Your squared approach is wrong: greater_abs2(3, 4) returns true but should return false.

omegalulw on June 14, 2022 [–]

They probably meant num * num > x * x

dhosek on June 14, 2022 | [–]

Which is still wrong since num = 3, x = -4 should be true.

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