Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

• Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure I was serious. I don’t know how people can be that clever. It seems simple once it’s explained, sure, but I wouldn’t be able to come up with that on my own without someone else giving me a problem that points me in that direction.

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  • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Studied this in computer science algorithms class waaaaayyy back in 1996 and by golly this one stuck with me. It’s so simple and so effective.

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