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by jansan 1326 days ago
Spoiler: If you are using Javascript, this bug only affects you if your arrays have more than Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER/2 entries, which is about 2^52. In other words, don't waste your time with fixing this bug.
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Unless you're binary searching something other than a data structure. Fascinatingly, binary search works just fine in optimization problems where the function to optimize is monotonic.