Practice - Binary Search Introduction
Practice Questions
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What is the worst-case time complexity of a linear search?
💡 Hint: Think about how many items you might check in the largest case.
Name one key requirement for binary search to work.
💡 Hint: Recall how binary search compares the middle value.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the time complexity of binary search?
💡 Hint: Think about how many times you can divide by 2.
True or false: Binary search can be performed on unsorted data.
💡 Hint: Recall the prerequisites of binary search.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a sorted list of 10,000 numbers, explain how you would implement binary search to find a specific number, and what the expected time complexity would be.
💡 Hint: Remember the logarithm base 2 relates to the number of halvings.
Why might binary search not be the best choice when searching for a value in an unsorted dataset? Provide an example.
💡 Hint: Think about what the requirements for binary search are and the limitations of unsorted data.
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