Perspective

You can tell you’re talking to a group of mathematicians and computer scientists when you follow the statement (made in reference to coding a spell checker based on a dictionary of sixteen million words):

By using a binary tree, we can cut the average search time from 16 MILLION comparisons to 24 comparisons.

with

This is still very inefficient.

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