What are Searching Algorithms?

Searching Data Structures

Searching Graphs

Binary Search

function binary_search(list, target):
    left = 0
    right = length(list) - 1
    while left <= right:
        mid = (left + right) // 2
        if list[mid] == target:
            return mid
        elif list[mid] < target:
            left = mid + 1
        else:
            right = mid - 1
    return -1