an example of a divide and conquer algorithm and a dichotomic search

an example of a divide and conquer algorithm(more

a program technique that eliminates one half of a list with a single action

a technique for locating an item in an organized arrangement

a search technique that iteratively discards half of a given set in an effort to locate a desired item. The technique requires a sorted set stored as an array.

A process of searching a table for a particular value by repeatedly partitioning the remaining search area into two halves by looking at the center value and determining if it is less or greater than the search value. The table of values must be sorted for this to work.

A search algorithm on a sorted list in which at each step the middle of the list is compared to the value to be found and a decision is made that either the value is at the middle, or is in the first half of the list, or it is in the second half.

This is a search technique that splits an ordered list into halves until a result is found. Thus it splits the list into a top and bottom half, then picks the half that the search term is located in (which can be determined because this search is used on ordered lists) and splits that in half, and so on until the search term is reached.

A technique for searching by comparison of keys, in which the search space roughly halves in size after each comparison step.

A dichotomizing search with steps in which the sets of remaining items are partioned into two equal parts.