Show HN: A game I made to explain binary search to non programmers

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• cyborgx7 1767 days ago
  Not sure the warmer, colder thing works.

  Shouldn't 5, for example, have been colder, in this example?

  https://i.imgur.com/AiKIuDC.png

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  • mfbx9da4 1767 days ago
    Yeah fair, I'm calculating distance as the sum of horizontal distance + vertical distance which is 7 for both (1) and (5) - but I should calculate hypotenuse. Thanks for spotting this.
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    • cyborgx7 1767 days ago
      Ah, I see. Makes sense when you know it. Explaining it would solve the problem for me. Can't win a game I don't know the rules to, you know.
• HNLurker2 1767 days ago
  I always do this to find the scene I was last when watching a movie
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  • mfbx9da4 1767 days ago
    ah that's actually a much simpler way of explaining it haha!