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46 changes: 46 additions & 0 deletions C++/Recursive implementation of Randomized Binary Search
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// C++ program to implement recursive
// randomized algorithm.
#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
using namespace std;

int getRandom(int x, int y)
{
srand(time(NULL));
return (x + rand() % (y-x+1));
}

// A recursive randomized binary search function.
// It returns location of x in
// given array arr[l..r] is present, otherwise -1
int randomizedBinarySearch(int arr[], int l,
int r, int x)
{
if (r >= l)
{
int mid = getRandom(l, r);

if (arr[mid] == x)
return mid;

if (arr[mid] > x)
return randomizedBinarySearch(arr, l,
mid-1, x);

return randomizedBinarySearch(arr, mid+1,
r, x);
}

return -1;
}

int main(void)
{
int arr[] = {2, 3, 4, 10, 40};
int n = sizeof(arr)/ sizeof(arr[0]);
int x = 10;
int result = randomizedBinarySearch(arr, 0, n-1, x);
(result == -1)? printf("Element is not present in array")
: printf("Element is present at index %d", result);
return 0;
}