Randomized binary search technique

  • Authors:
  • S. R. Arora;W. T. Dent

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis;Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1969

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Abstract

A mathematical model is developed for the mean and variance of the number of trials to recover a given document in a randomly received list of files. The search method described is binary in nature and offers new potential for information retrieval systems.