this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
2554 points (99.6% liked)

Programmer Humor

19512 readers
468 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Feyter@programming.dev
anzo@programming.dev
BurningTurtle@programming.dev
pylapp@programming.dev
2554
Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police (startrek.website)
submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
410 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Grimble@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)
  • Binary search: O(log(n))
  • Sequential search: O(n)
  • Linear search: O(n)
  • Police ethnicity database search: O(0)
[โ€“] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

No need to search when you already have someone you wanna pin it on.