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Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
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Yes, they have. They've used it as a reason why a binary search would not work, that the event duration would be too short to be detectable.
And that's not a strawman, that's making my point, that its not just the event, but the aftereffects of the event, that makes a binary search possible.