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Uh, wouldn't that be called a ternary search? Saying "double-pivot binary search" is kinda like saying "three-wheeled bicycle".
by colanderman 13y ago
Uh, wouldn't that be called a ternary search?
Saying "double-pivot binary search" is kinda like saying "three-wheeled bicycle".
- dalke 13y agoBoth I and my wife have a tendency to call her tricycle a "bike" or "bicycle", and to ride on roads expressly marked as bicycle lanes.
- StefanKarpinski 13y agoAre you married to a toddler? Do adults ride tricycles?
- mtrimpe 13y agoMany physically disabled people ride tricycles. Don't know about the GP's wife but it's a good thing to keep in mind. Could prevent you from possibly making some painfully unfunny jokes.
- dalke 13y agoShe bought it because she likes it over a regular bicycle. Just to add, there can also be commercial reasons for a tricycle. In my neighborhood growing up in Miami, there was an ice cream vendor and a knife grinder who went around on trikes. In the latter case, the chain was switched over to the grinding stone to provide power.
- anoonmoose 13y agoThere are plenty of reasons a person might find a tricycle more appropriate for their use than a bicycle, personal preference of course being a perfectly reasonable one.
- dalke 13y agoThat being my wife's reason. She fell in love with recumbents in college, after trying one that a professor had, and bought a Hase Lepus Comfort recumbent tricycle a few years ago. She likes the stability, being close to the ground, sitting on a real seat instead of a saddle, and the cargo space for groceries or camping gear.
- StefanKarpinski 13y agoProbably poor joke aside, I'd never heard of adults riding tricycles, so thanks in any case for the informative answers.
- theycallhimtom 13y agoThere is already a different (more useful) algorithm called ternary search (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_search).