What will be the output of the binary search function if the target is not found

Practice Questions

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What will be the output of the binary search function if the target is not found?
  1. The index of the closest element
  2. The index of the target
  3. -1
  4. 0

Questions & Step-by-Step Solutions

What will be the output of the binary search function if the target is not found?
  • Step 1: Understand that binary search is a method used to find a target value in a sorted array.
  • Step 2: If the target value is not present in the array, the binary search will continue to check until it has searched all possible positions.
  • Step 3: When the search is complete and the target value is not found, the function will return a specific value to indicate this.
  • Step 4: In most implementations of binary search, this specific value is -1, which means 'not found'.
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