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Betteridge's law of headlines states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

For example: "Has Science Found the Fountain of Youth?" -> No

So, answering your question, it's a resounding no

Author here, happy to answer questions about the experience

My first hypothesis was that shorter variable names would use fewer tokens and be better for context utilisation and inference speed. I would expand your competitive programming angle to the obfuscated C challenge ;)