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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread halfway looking... #150022 11/09/2005 6:57 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont ran across this term while perusing computer fora... dichotomic search just some interesting things there. and while you're there, you'll love this: memoize formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Re: halfway looking... #150023 11/09/2005 11:04 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh Memoization is a great word, and it's been around since being coined in '68 by Donald Michie at the University of Edinburgh. I've used it before in LISP programs, and it certainly speeds up code. It's a sort of a flipsideways of lazy evaluation. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: halfway looking... #150024 11/10/2005 1:20 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Right you are. Got it. Dichotomic search. That's what Mean Joe Green did when he anchored the Steel Curtain defense of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Seventies. Joe would wrap his big arms around everybody in the offensive backfield and then begin the sort. He categorized players into dichotomous groups: those who did not have the ball and the one who did. He would eliminate from his grasp the former until all he had left was the latter. Dichotomic search. There you are. Copy Link to Clipboard Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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