Challenge: Binary Search
Complete the doSearch
function so that it implements a binary search, following the pseudo-code below (this pseudo-code was described in the previous article):
Let
min = 0
andmax = n - 1
.If
max < min
, then stop: target is not present in array. Return-1
.Compute guess as the average of
max
andmin
, rounded down (so that it is an integer).If
array[guess]
equalstarget
, then stop. You found it! Returnguess
.If the guess was too low, that is,
array[guess] < target
, then setmin = guess + 1
.Otherwise, the guess was too high. Set
max = guess - 1
.Go back to step 2.
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