Starting Out with C++: Early Objects (9th Edition)
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Author: Tony Gaddis, Judy Walters, Godfrey Muganda
Publisher: PEARSON
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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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Starting Out with C++: Early Objects (9th Edition)
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