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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

History is about 10k years, the 200k years is mostly pre-history. People didn't write stuff down until they invented agriculture and needed to track trade between owners, workers, etc

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

True and interesting to note. OOP says 'dawn of humanity' though, not recorded history, so taking 200k as 'human history' is also valid.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm used to the narrower meaning of "history", meaning recorded. I like that definition as it lets you differentiate between it and prehistory.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Definitely a useful distinction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, in this case it must have been recorded on video, so could as well start recording before inventing the writing