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Programming Elixir
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Programming Elixir

by Dave Thomas
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
7h 20m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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  • Exercise: ModulesAndFunctions-6

    I’m thinking of a number between 1 and 1000.…

    The most efficient way to find the number is to guess halfway between the low and high numbers of the range. If our guess is too big, then the answer lies between the bottom of the range and one less than our guess. If our guess is too small, then the answer lies between one more than our guess and the end of the range.

    Your API will be guess(actual, range), where range is an Elixir range.

    Your output should look similar to this:

     
    iex> Chop.guess(273, 1..1000)
     
    Is it 500
     
    Is it 250
     
    Is it 375
     
    Is it 312
     
    Is it 281
     
    Is it 265
     
    Is it 273
     
    273

    Hints:

    • You may need to implement helper functions with an additional parameter (the currently guessed number).

    • The ...

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