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GCSE Computer Science · key term
A searching algorithm that checks items one at a time from the beginning until a match is found or all items have been checked. The data need not be sorted.
Used by OCR
Paper 2
Revise: Standard Searching AlgorithmsLinear search and binary search approach this task differently. Linear search checks items one after another. Binary search uses the order of the data to rule out large groups of items at once.
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