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Number Guessing Game - Need Help
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Just use two points and add them and divide them by two and that's your first guess, just like a human would do. 0+100//2=50. Then an input would be if the guess is too high or low. Then the guess would be either 25 or 75 etc. Mathematically speaking, this should take about 8-10 steps, which is probably the quickest; unless you're randomly guessing or brute forcing.

Here's something I came up with quickly:
h=100
l=0
answer=""
while answer != "yes":
	m=(h+l)//2
	print("Is it",m,"?")
	answer=input("lower, higher or yes?")
	if answer=="lower":
		h*=1.5
	elif answer=="higher":
		h*=0.5
Though I'm not sure on it's reliability, just it's idea.
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RE: Number Guessing Game - Need Help - by micseydel - Jan-04-2018, 12:40 AM
RE: Number Guessing Game - Need Help - by micseydel - Jan-04-2018, 12:41 AM
RE: Number Guessing Game - Need Help - by joekbaum - Jan-04-2018, 12:48 AM
RE: Number Guessing Game - Need Help - by micseydel - Jan-04-2018, 12:59 AM
RE: Number Guessing Game - Need Help - by joekbaum - Jan-04-2018, 01:55 AM
RE: Number Guessing Game - Need Help - by ShadowWarrior17 - Jan-04-2018, 02:16 AM
Number Guessing Game - Need Help - by joekbaum - Jan-04-2018, 12:16 AM

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