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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

binary search

A method of searching data which is already stored in some sort of order. To reduce the search time an algorithm selects half of the data to search through and repeats this process until the data is located.

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findfind (or search)fuzzy logicsearchsearch criteriasearch resultssearch routineadvanced searchalgorithm
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