Drop Dead Simple Interview Questions

[micseydel]

Does sqrt = lambda n: n ** 0.5 count as cheating? :p

Yes =p

Well, you didn't think about the thousands separators either. And this question is more complicated than you think.

I tend to want a solution that accepts what most programming languages do for floats (without concern for underflow/overflow), in ASCII and the locale I share with the candidate. So, no "thousands separator" and the decimal separator is a dot rather than a comma. I also don't expect scientific notation, but I appreciate it when candidates suggest it.