Binary search is an efficient algorithm for finding a key in a sorted array. It runs in O(log n) time.

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Binary Search Feedback

I have written a binary search algorithm, but it seems to be a bit different than other peoples that I've seen. I was hoping that the community could give me some feedback as to whether or not I'm ...
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Check if a Binary Tree <String> is aBinary Search Tree

i'm understanding the question but wanna make sure if my implementation is correct or not =| The Q is : Write a method that accepts as its argument a BinaryTree object and returns true if the ...
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Wrote high-concurrency dictionary in C, would like peer review

Project Repository Details to know before looking at code (look for flaws in my approach before looking for code flaws) I have include/*.h as the headers meant to be used by consumers of the ...
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Creating an Array of Linked Lists from a BST

Question Given a binary search tree, design an algorithm which creates a linked list of all the nodes at each depth (eg, if you have a tree with depth D, you’ll have D linked lists) Here is my ...
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How can this code become cleaner and less error prone? Especially the binary search part

How could this code become cleaner? I think that the way I handle the interfaces and binary search could be improved. I am trying to understand how to structure such a code 9and usage of APIs) in a ...
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Returning Binary Search Tree Nodes in Zig Zag manner

I tried to implement an answer for the algorithm question given below. I implemented two different solutions. I couldn't decide which one is better. ( Maybe none ) Note: Node class and ZigZag ...
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Binary search algorithm for non-overlapping time spans and possible gaps

I have a data structure, containing time span nodes, with the following properties: Nodes are sorted ascending Time spans will not overlap, but may have gaps between them Each node will have a start ...
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Errors with binary search in Haskell

I just learned about Maybe in Haskell, so I decided to try to use it with a binary search. Here's the function: binarySearch :: (Ord a, Int b) => [a] -> a -> b -> b -> Maybe b ...
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Given an 2D array which is row and column wise sorted. What is the efficient way to search for an element?

For example, given a 2D array (a matrix) {{1, 2, 3, 4}, {5, 6, 7, 8}, {9, 10, 11, 12}} What are the solutions to find a number? say 6. Here's the code I tried using Binary search method - (code ...
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Implemenatation of Binary search Tree

Written a code to implement BST. I would like a code review and any suggestions to make it better? #include<iostream.h> #include<conio.h> #include<stack> #include<queue> ...
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Optimizing function that searches for binary patterns [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Optimizing function that searches for binary patterns I have two functions that calculate whether or not a given coordinate (x, y) is a diagonal or anti-diagonal of ...
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Improving the efficiency and design of my number guessing game

I have just written a solution to the following problem: we all know the classic "guessing game" with higher or lower prompts. lets do a role reversal; you create a program that will guess ...
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Deleting a node from Binary Search Tree

I have read about it at few places and tried to write my own version, would like to get it reviewed. class Node { private int value; private Node left; private Node right // ...
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InOder successor and predecessor in Binary Search Tree

Do they look correct? I implemented them and was looking to review them Node predecessor(Node node) { if ((node.left == null) && (node.right==null)) { return node; } if ...
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Implementations of prefix lookup tables in Python

I've got a fairly performance sensitive need for fast prefix lookup, and I've built two different implementations trying to optimize for my use case. The first is built off a Trie implementation, and ...
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Splay tree implementation

I am looking into splay trees and I implemented a version. It seems correct. Could someone please let me know if this indeed correct and how to improve it? I will just show the insert item and splay. ...
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Is this binary search close to idiomatic OCaml?

let binsearch ~arr ~cmp x = ( let cmpx = cmp x in (* Assuming arr is ordered according to cmp, then (bs min max) is an *) (* index of a value v in arr such that ((cmp x value) = 0) ...
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Java binary search (and get index if not there) review

I want to do binary search and if the target is not there get the index of where it should have been. This is the code I came up with. It seems correct. Is there any problem? Can it be improved? ...
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Binary tree traversal algorithms

I recently started learning binary tree. Following is the code for a typical node for a tree (no code review required for that): typedef unsigned int uint; template<typename T> class ...
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Generic binary search

I have the following code for binary search using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading; using System.Diagnostics; namespace ...
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Binary search optimization: Kernighan & Ritchie 3-1

The problem I am trying to solve can be described as take binarysearch0 and rewrite it as binarysearch1 such that binarysearch1 uses a single test inside the loop instead of two. The code I used to do ...