[Tutor] Help with Guess the number script

Danny Yoo dyoo at hashcollision.org
Thu Mar 13 00:12:00 CET 2014


>
> Such errors are either obvious or invisible. A remedy is often to figure the
> problem on paper (or in your head if you're good at thinking visually).
> Here, just draw a line segment with secret in the middle and the interval
> borders around. Then, write there on the drawing the _values_ of the
> borders, as arithmetic expressions.

Very much so.  Diagrams are important.  Not everything is textual.

(Which you might consider with some irony based on some of the
meta-discussion on this thread.)



See some of the problem-solving heuristics described in:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It

"Can you think of a picture or a diagram that might help you
understand the problem?"


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