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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

According to my napkin math it would take longer than an hour if the tape was ~3.3*10^218 sec long (or three million trillion trillion... (18 trillions) ...trillion years). Assuming you have only have two options to choose between but can pick which alternative in in 5 seconds (2^720) and you want to get down to a 1 minute intervall.

So i mean its not impossible to find a tape long enough though it seems unlikely that we would be so off in our estimates of the age of the universe.