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Explain the DRY principle.
Tests whether you frame DRY as 'every piece of knowledge should have a single authoritative representation,' not merely 'don't copy-paste code' -- duplicated logic (even if phrased differently) is the real violation, since both copies must now be kept in sync by hand.
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