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Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police (startrek.website)
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[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You did 200k years. You need to do 200k years as seconds (the 6.311e12 they mentioned). Their math is right.

Not sure why you're acting like they claimed to invent the logarithm, either...