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[-] veleth@lemmy.wtf 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Not necessarily, but searching a data set that’s not ordered relies on an assumption that there’s a single thing you’re looking for.

If there are 10 ingredients, you get sick and you only take half next time, you need to be able to assume that there’s one set of 5 that doesn’t get you sick and one that does, and so on until you get down to the last ingredient.

It’s a good way to e.g. quickly find the right breaker in the box, because for each device/ socket there’s just one breaker that’s responsible, so flipping half of them gives you an actionable result

this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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