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Can so.eone explain to me by what bisecting intervals are?​

Can so.eone explain to me by what bisecting intervals are?​-example-1
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When you bisect something, you cut it into two equally sized pieces. (from Latin: "bi" = two, "sect" = cut)

Bisecting an interval creates two smaller intervals each with half the length of the original interval. Some examples:

• bisecting [0, 2] gives the intervals [0, 1] and [1, 2]

• bisecting [-1, 1] gives the intervals [-1, 0] and [0, 1]

• bisecting an arbitrary interval
[a,b] gives the intervals
\left[a,\frac{a+b}2\right] and
\left[\frac{a+b}2,b\right]

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