Question
A technique for speeding up iterations of this algorithm involves augmenting each node in a catalog graph with one over d elements from each adjacent node, where d is a degree bound. That technique, called fractional cascading, lets you run this algorithm once and get the rest in constant time. Most cheap analog-to-digital converters use a successive approximation register architecture, which implements this algorithm. An anecdote in Programming Pearls notes that, given a couple hours, 90 percent of programmers still (*) failed to correctly implement this algorithm. The user specifies “bad” or “good” to determine which commit introduced a bug in a git tool that implements this algorithm. Most implementations of this algorithm repeatedly set a middle variable to the average of low and high variables. For 10 points, name this algorithm that finds an object in a sorted list by repeatedly dividing it in half. ■END■
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMACS at CO | 08/06/2023 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 125.50 |
| EMACS Online | 10/01/2023 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 84.20 |