• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    21 days ago

    You know, after posting that comment, I really doubted myself, if it really is binary search, because Wikipedia also tells me it needs to be a sorted array.

    But yeah, I think that’s only relevant, if your method of checking whether it’s in one half or the other uses > and <. As far as I can tell, so long as you can individually identify the fuses, a.k.a. they’re countable, then you can apply binary search.

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      21 days ago

      If when you divide your set in two, you can reliably tell which of the two subsets definitely has what you’re looking for, then it’s binary search.