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A computer scientist beat textbook binary search by more than 2x
April 30, 2026
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Binary search is the page-flipping trick everyone learns in their first programming class: to find a word in a sorted list, look at the middle, decide whether your target is in the top or bottom half, and repeat. It has been considered close to optimal since the 1940s. — Read the rest The post A computer scientist beat textbook binary search by more than 2x appeared first on Boing Boing.
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