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Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police (startrek.website)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (17 children)

God damn, whoever came up with that is clever. I would have never come up with that on my own.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago

What if you had to guess a number between 0 and 100 and the other person (or an application) only told you if the number is bigger or smaller? That's the form that's usually presented to CS students and most people end up figuring it out on their own. Then the trick is knowing how to generalize it.

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