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		vincnetas on March 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Möbius Printing Helper And if you don't know exactly how many pages there are? Normaly you would just do binary search.

jonsen on March 3, 2021 [–]

If pages are numbered, the largest page number is still on last page. Just look there.

Or alternatively: The first step of your binary search is to look at the page number on the flip side of page 1 and determine to flip the stack or not.

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