STAR Answers That Work

STAR Answers That Work — crisp, exam-focused notes with worked examples and the pitfalls that cost real marks.

KnowledgeGate Team

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8 Sep 20261 min read40.9k views

STAR Answers That Work — a synthetic dev article generated by the infra synthesizer. Everything here is placeholder prose for layout, TOC, SSR and discussion testing.

Overview

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Key Concepts

  • Definition and intuition

  • Common pitfalls

  • Exam patterns

Worked Example

cpp
int lo = 0, hi = n - 1;
while (lo <= hi) {
  int mid = lo + (hi - lo) / 2;
  if (a[mid] == x) return mid;
  if (a[mid] < x) lo = mid + 1; else hi = mid - 1;
}

Quick Comparison

Approach

Time

Space

Naive

O(n²)

O(1)

Optimized

O(n log n)

O(n)

Summary

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