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Re:Quixey Challenge - 1 Bug, 1 Minute, $100 by sigvef on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @11:09AM (#3319709)
// is Python's floor division operator, enabled in 2.2[1].

[1]: http://docs.python.org/release/2.2.3/whatsnew/node7.html

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Re:Quixey Challenge - 1 Bug, 1 Minute, $100 by orionhickman on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @01:45PM (#3320369)
I don't understand how this is related.
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Re:Quixey Challenge - 1 Bug, 1 Minute, $100 by sigvef on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @08:32PM (#3322031)
Someone posted a comment asking for clarification in how the provided solution to the binary search qualifier could possibly work as intended. Specifically, in the following line of code the double slashes were erroneously interpreted as a comment rather than a division operator: mid = start + (end - start) // 2

The comment has since then been deleted.

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