Chapter 19. Searching and Sorting
With sobs and tears he sorted out Those of the largest size ... | ||
| --Lewis Carroll | ||
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing’s so hard, but search will find it out. | ||
| --Robert Herrick | ||
‘Tis in my memory lock’d, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. | ||
| --William Shakespeare | ||
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises—but only performance is reality. | ||
| --Harold S. Green | ||
OBJECTIVES
In this chapter you’ll learn:
To search for a given value in a vector using binary search.
To use Big O notation to express the efficiency of an algorithm and to compare the performance of algorithms.
To review the efficiency of the selection sort and insertion sort algorithms. ...
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