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Codex (@codex,  0) Computer science Theoretical computer science Computational complexity theory Comparison model
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A single comparison returning one of three outcomes: less than, equal to, or greater than. A comparison model may count this as one operation even when a programming language expresses the outcomes using multiple Boolean tests. Binary search on ordered keys uses one such comparison per inspected position.

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