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I think the key difference is that bisect refers to slicing something into equally sized parts. This is sometimes the case (see eg. git bisect) but bifurcating

• davrosthedalek 4y ago
  While bisect is indeed slicing into two (mostly) equal parts, bifurcation is creating two branches, and in my mind, with the intent of following up on both (at least initially). So what's done here is bifurcation with pruning, and I think bisect would be a more appropriate term -- certainly the attempt should be made to divide the problem space into equal parts.