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by musicale 270 days ago
Missing the instruction panel where the customer is attempting to follow the baffling instructions and has to use a wired phone to call the store for help.

Getting quicksort's boundary conditions right (avoiding off-by-one errors, infinite recursion, etc.) can be tricky.

Another popular algorithm that can be hard to get right is binary search.

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BINÄRY SEARCH has you covered. (-:

* https://idea-instructions.com/binary-search/

The second page is borderline incomprehensible, I'm not sure I would ever understand what it's trying to say if I didn't already know.
Stuck in second round of step 2, since there is no middle cup to lift!