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Simple search vs Binary search Algorithms.

Olasunkanmi Igbasan on August 14, 2022

Hello there ! Welcome and stay with me as I explain Big O Notation to you in the simplest words ever! "Total time needed for an algorithm to run,"...
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Awosise Oluwaseun •

Nice write up

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Victoria Ajibola •

This was super helpful πŸ‘πŸ½

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Paul Dumebi •

Interesting. I learnt something

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Modupe Okaseun •

This is an amazing write up, nice one!

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Olasunkanmi Igbasan •

Thank you πŸ“

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Olasunkanmi Igbasan •

Thank you

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Mavludin •

Thanks for the article.

One thing I would like to point out is that to be able to apply the binary search, we must have a sorted array.

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Olasunkanmi Igbasan •

Yes.

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Oluwatobiloba Adesokan •

Nice one ☺️

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STEVE •

Good read..πŸ’ͺ

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Allen Houng •

shouldn't simple search be O(n)? O(1) is constant time

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Olasunkanmi Igbasan •

Thank you so much, totally!