What is the difference between a binary search and a
sequential search?

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What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?..

Answer / muhammad abdul aleem

Binary Search | Sequential Search
1.Search All | 1.Search
2.Data should be in sorted | 2.Data can be in any order
order |
3. Only 1 When condition | 3. Any no. of when conditions
can be used | can be used.
4. Only '=' relational | 4. Any relational operator.
operator is used |
5. Access is faster | 5. Access is slow
6.Used for only single | 6. used for single/Multi
dimentional array | dimentional array.

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What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?..

Answer / guest

Binary search is search all. sequential search is the
linear serach.

Example for Search all: File contains 100 records. supose
if u r searching for 75 th record, first entire file
divided into two parts, it will check , whether record is
in first half or second.. like that file ds divded into
diffrent parts

sequential serach: if the file contains 100 records, spose
if u r looking for 75th record, it will start serach from
first record...

Is This Answer Correct ?    98 Yes 12 No

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?..

Answer / shyamendra

Binary search is attampt on file which is in sorted
order.Search All is the key word.Only one 'WHEN'
& 'AND'.Only '=' is used.
While Linear search can be attempt on any
file.Any logical operation is possible.Multiple 'WHEN' are
possible.Index is set to 1 before starting searching.When
table size is small then only we use this.

Is This Answer Correct ?    40 Yes 14 No

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?..

Answer / boxee

binary search is fast because
it check the element mid
is element is less
it set the beg
mid=(beg+end)/2;
if(value>a[mid])
{
beg=mid+1;
}
else
{
end=mid-1;
}

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What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?..

Answer / muthu

binary search runs in O(logn) time whereas linear search
runs in O(n) times thus binary search has better
performance.

Is This Answer Correct ?    36 Yes 14 No

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?..

Answer / sahil chawla

HI !!!!
I m Sahil Chawla


It is to be noted that in binary search MID=(start+end)/2
is to be found
but in linear search there is no such condition

Is This Answer Correct ?    18 Yes 7 No

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?..

Answer / anupam

binary search is performed by calculating mid point whereas sequential search is performed by sorting all elements.prior is the faster.

Is This Answer Correct ?    2 Yes 9 No

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?..

Answer / pratik gondaliya

with binary serch we can not get output faster because it is difficult to sort the character element.

with linear serch we can get output fastest.

example-: hello my name is pratik

Is This Answer Correct ?    6 Yes 20 No

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?..

Answer / santhosh

santhosh kumar is a very good boy???

Is This Answer Correct ?    4 Yes 19 No

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?..

Answer / a.r.rahman(music director

binary and sequensial search is bad.................

Is This Answer Correct ?    11 Yes 48 No

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