Q. Searching refers to an operation of finding the location of an item in a_______.

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Q. When the records are stored in __________ or any secondary storage, then the searching is known as external searching.

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Q. Which is the easiest and least efficient searching technique?

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Q. The average searching time for Fibonacci search is__________.

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Q. Fibonaccian search, also referred to as Fibonacci search, is a ________algorithm for searching a sorted array by narrowing possible locations to progressively smaller intervals.

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Q. At most, how many comparisons are required to search a sorted vector of 1023 elements using the binary search algorithm?

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Q. Which of the following is an example of in-place algorithm?

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Q. The average case of quick sort has order

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Q. Which sorting algorithm is the best if the list is already in order?

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Q. The number of comparisons required to sort 5 numbers in ascending order using bubble sort is

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Q. The second largest number from a set of n distinct numbers can be found in

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Q. The sort which inserts each elements A(K) into proper position in the previously sorted sub array A(1), ..., A(K–1)

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Q. Shell sort uses ................

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Q. A desirable choice for the partitioning element in quick sort is

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Q. Out of the following, the slowest sorting procedure is

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Q. The minimum number of comparisons required to find the largest number from 4 different numbers are

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Q. A sorting algorithm is stable if

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Q. For a binary search algorithm to work, it is necessary that the array must be ............

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Q. Match the following:

List - I
i. Bubble Sort  
ii. Shell Sort     
iii. Selection Sort   
     
List - II
a. Ο(n)
b. Ο(n2)
c. Ο(n log n)

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Q. The largest and the second largest number from a set of n distinct numbers can be found in

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