A Search Strategy Using a Hamming-Distance Oracle

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Maurer, Peter M.

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The objective of the algorithm described in this report is to optimally guess a hidden binary string based on queries to an oracle where the length of the string is known beforehand. A C++ version of the algorithm is given along with a theoretical discussion of why the algorithm works. A discussion of the worst and average-case performance is given along with some discussion of optimality.

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Hamming-Distance Oracle, Algorithms

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