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Re:Guess My RGB by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday March 31, 2024 @08:32PM (#39889615)
Binary search on each channel is the optimal general solution without starting from an educated guess on the first try. This is how a successive approximation ADC performs a conversion.
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Re:Guess My RGB by Taek on Monday April 01, 2024 @12:35AM (#39890941)
You can do a lot better than binary search because you get a weighted score for each guess.
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Re:Guess My RGB by saintradon on Monday April 01, 2024 @01:01PM (#39896304)
What is this next best option called? A weighted binary search?
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