Re: Advice from native speakers needed: To "bisect" or to "halve"?

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On 2/5/2015 8:55 PM, VDR User wrote:
The question now is: is "bisect" the right word here, which a native English
speaker would use? Or should it rather be "halve"? Or something completely
different?
Bisect isn't correct. Bisecting means to cut something into 2 parts.
Using "halve" doesn't make sense. Binary doesn't either for that
matter. My suggestion is to call it "adaptive skipping".

"adaptive skip value":
Defines the how many seconds to skip forward/back when pressing 1/3.
Valid range is 10-600.

"adaptive skip alternate behavior":
If enabled, adaptive skipping will only adjust the adaptive skip value
with key presses that change the skip direction. Otherwise, the skip
value is halved with every key press.

"adaptive skipping reset":
Defines how long to wait without a key press before resetting the
adaptive skip value back to its original setting.

That to me describes what those do much better. Btw, the definitions
seemed like they could use a touch-up too so I threw in suggestions
for those as well. :)

Regards,
Derek

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Hi,
I would use the term "Binary Search" in the description in the manual etc. that
way all IT "Types" would know how it works, but it has a very low WAF,
so no way should an end user get to see that term.

I guess the end user should get to see the term "skip" somewhere, then they will know what is meant immediately, I guess "adaptive skipping" is a good description.

My 5 cents worth.

Cheers Brian


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