COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
ALGORITHMS
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Question
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The values are put in a line
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You have to guess to find the value
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The value is moved around the line
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A linear search is the simplest method of searching a data set. Starting at the beginning of the data set, each item of data is examined until a match is made. Once the item is found, the search ends. If there is no match, the algorithm must deal with this.
Detailed explanation-2: -Linear search sequentially checks each element of a given list for the target value until a match is found. If no match is found, a linear search would perform the search on all of the items in the list.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Linear search, we simply traverse the list completely and match each element of the list with the item whose location is to be found. If the match is found, then the location of the item is returned; otherwise, the algorithm returns NULL.