• catloaf
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    5 months ago

    The technical term is binary search.

    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      Yeah but I didn’t know that term until I looked it up. Also OhMyGit didn’t cover using tests and automating it.

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        5 months ago

        Definitely a useful tool and one you should’ve learned in a college algorithms course. Binary search backs a lot of high performance data structures