Comments by "⃠" (@U20E0) on "Bug in Binary Search - Computerphile" video.

  1. it's worth noting that one operation can be significant ( practically only division though ) it's just that anything involving memory access is going to be more significant by an order of magnitude, it not several.
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  2. note that it can still overflow in general. A/2 + B/2 however can't ( i think )
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  3.  @feliksporeba5851  I guess i was thinking more about C, where overflow "needs" to be avoided entirely because it's UB
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  4.  @pwhqngl0evzeg7z37  i said note that this can still overflow in general , meaning it can overflow in other circumstances
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  5.  @atk05003  for the second time, "in general" means you're not making assumptions!
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  6. ⁠ @brianb2308 In C it doesn't exist (unfortunately). It will in C2x, but that's not out yet
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