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                    GOOGLE FOOBAR: My winning participatiosn
                         to the Google FooBar challenge



   Why Making it Public?

At first, this repository was left private, to avoid releasing solutions to
other participants.  However, since Google *unofficially* announced the death
of the project to April 1st, 2024, I decided to make it public.

I do hope the solutions here may someday be helpful (even to myself), or
inspire me to make something similar ;).


   What is Google FooBar?

Google FooBar was a secret recruiting program by Google.  It was a series of
complex computer science problems, which were presented to the user in a cool
storyline.  The user was given a time limit to solve the problems, and the
user's performance was evaluated by Google.  If the user did well, they would
be invited to apply for a job at Google.

(For more information, see the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Foobar).

> For those wondering, I did receive an offer, but I didn't accept it, I'm a
> true sigma male.


   Where?

Google FooBar was hosted online at https://foobar.withgoogle.com.  While not
officially announced, it was invite-only.


   Legal

Solutions proposed in the code are the intellectual property of their authors.
The storyline and the inputs for the questions are the creation and artistic
work of Google LLC (Google), a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.  The author of this
repository is not affiliated with Google LLC, and the solutions proposed here
are not endorsed by Google LLC.  The author of this repository does not claim
any rights over the storyline or the inputs for the questions, and the
rest of the content is not made public for commercial purposes.

You are not granted any right to read, copy, use, modify, distribute, or
leverage the content of this repository without explicit written permission
from ALL the authors, except for the terms described in GitHub's Terms Of
Service to public viewing.

Failure to comply with these terms will result in legal action taken directly,
with no regard to good faith.  Be evil.

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