When bad weather prevented navigators from seeing the sun,moon or stars, they had to use a method called "dead reckoning" to find the ship's position.

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Remember, I said when we do a bisection method, we're assuming the answer lies somewhere between Well, what is the square root of a quarter? It is a half.

记住，我提过当我们用二分法的时候,我们假设答案处于,上边界和下边界之间,0。25的平方根是多少？,是0。5。

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Remember, I said when we do a bisection method, we're assuming the answer lies somewhere between Well, what is the square root of a quarter? It is a half.

记住，我提过当我们用二分法的时候,我们假设答案处于,上边界和下边界之间,0。25的平方根是多少？,是0。5。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选