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		jcmorrow 56 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Every mathematician has only a few tricks (2020) I have both felt and seen this at work and I would add to this the meta-technique of binary search. Once it is added to your light and heavy technique you can solve what seems intractable at first glance faster than many people can even orient to the problem.

philipov 56 days ago [–]

A related meta-technique is "starting at both ends and meeting in the middle". It's kind of like the inverse of binary search in some sense, isn't it?

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