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Efficient Numerical Search
Read in from a file either flat file or db. I was thinking of reading into an array and then performing some sort of binary search. The key to the problem is obviously you don't know the missing number but it is within a sequence of number ascending by one ie. 23, 24, 25, 27,28 just for... -
Efficient Numerical Search
I have been facing a problem developing an algorithm for an efficient numerical search. The scope of the problem is such: you have a sequence of numbers 1 - 1000 ,for example, one of the values is missing but you don't know which one. The problem is in designing an efficient algorithm that will...
