A Sorted List You Can Change
Last timeHalving the Search
Write the halving down as a tree of comparisons and the structure becomes the search. Insertions then cost one walk down and one link, with nothing shifted along to make room.
The sorted block searches in twenty steps and pays half a million to accept
one new item. The repair is to stop storing the order as positions and start
storing it as comparisons.
The lesson stops here
1 more paragraph to go
You have read the opening. The rest of the argument, the problems that check whether it landed, and the lines worth keeping at the end all come with a plan.
The first lesson of every course in the library reads the whole way through, free, so you can see exactly what the rest of them are.
See the planThe contentsThis is the reading half
Starting the course gives you your own copy of it. Every idea on every page has problems standing under it, marked with a reason rather than a tick, and any sentence you do not believe can be opened and argued with. None of that can happen on a page nobody owns.
The contents