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

submitted 2 years ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Without binary search, we would not have search engines today