Binary search is an exceptionally efficient algorithm designed to locate an element within a sorted list or array. In contrast to linear search, which examines each element sequentially, a binary ...

Twenty Questions is Too Many That’s why binary search is one of my favorite things. It’s a tool-slash-algorithm that I use multiple times per day, and it’s what underlies ADCs.

Those of you out there who slept through calculus class probably already have drooping eyelids, so I’ll give you a real-world binary search example.