Starting Out with C++: Early Objects
Starting Out with C++: Early Objects
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ISBN: 9780133360929
Author: Tony Gaddis, Judy Walters, Godfrey Muganda
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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The average number of comparisons achieved to find an item from an array of N elements by linear search is “N/2”.

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