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

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 1 year 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.