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== Needle in a haystack ==
 
== Needle in a haystack ==
You lost your needle in a haystack. If the world you live in has just one dimension, then you are lucky because the haystack is just a line segment. To find the needle, start from one end of the segment, heading towards the other end until hitting the needle:
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You lost your needle in a haystack. If the world you live in has just one dimension, then you are lucky because the haystack is just a line segment. Finding the needle only requires you to start from one end of the segment, heading towards the other end until hitting the needle:
  
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[[Image:1d_haystack.png|200px|thumb|left|1d haystack]]
  
  

Revision as of 06:32, 16 April 2014


Curse of Dimensionality

A slecture by ECE student Haonan Yu

Partly based on the ECE662 Spring 2014 lecture material of Prof. Mireille Boutin.


Needle in a haystack

You lost your needle in a haystack. If the world you live in has just one dimension, then you are lucky because the haystack is just a line segment. Finding the needle only requires you to start from one end of the segment, heading towards the other end until hitting the needle:

1d haystack







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