If you've heard of binary trees, you've probably heard of binary search. But how does a binary search algorithm actually work? And do you have to have binary trees, or can you use it on other things? Based on Vaidehi Joshi's blog post, "Looking For The Logic Behind Logarithms".
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Vaidehi is a writer and an engineer at Tilde, where she works on Skylight. She's the creator of basecs, a weekly writing series that explores the fundamentals of computer science.
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