A binary search halves the number of items to check with each iteration, so locating an item ( or determining its absence ) takes logarithmic time.

The player takes the part of a dungeon-delving character in search of the Amulet of Yendor.

Recently, some attacks based on careful measurements of the exact amount of time it takes known hardware to encrypt plain text have been used to simplify the search for likely decryption keys ( see " side channel attack ").

Alternatively, when a self-balancing binary search tree is used, insertion and removal also take O ( log n ) time, although building trees from existing sequences of elements takes O ( n log n ) time ; this is typical where one might already have access to these data structures, such as with third-party or standard libraries.

A similar fact takes place for particular computational tasks, like the search problem, for which Grover's algorithm is optimal.

However, if the search takes too long and mismatches are too frequent, the economy suffers, since some work will not get done.

In Aedes, the search for a host takes place in two phases.

Finding that the reward for his faith, eternity as promised in the Revelation, is worthless without her, Alex's journey through timeless space in search of his lost lady takes him to Hell and beyond.

The search for her takes advantage of her prodigious musical ability to locate her.

José and Panchito must search throughout Mexico for Donald as he takes in various sights around Mexico.

Eight years later, Connla, Cú Chulainn's son by Aífe, comes to Ireland in search of his father, but Cú Chulainn takes him as an intruder and kills him when he refuses to identify himself.

A Norwegian search engine, Kvasir, takes its name from the god.

* " Number 17 " – Finds Domino scanning the Disco Volante with a Geiger counter in search of the stolen atomic bombs ; reports her to Largo, who takes her prisoner and tortures her

What sets A * apart from a greedy best-first search is that it also takes the distance already traveled into account ; the part of the heuristic is the cost from the starting point, not simply the local cost from the previously expanded node.

At each iteration, the search takes a step s defined by solving Hs =-g for s, where s is the step, g is the gradient vector of the function's partial first derivatives with respect to the parameters, and H is an approximation to the Hessian matrix of partial second derivatives formed by repeated rank 1 updates at each iteration.

Bath houses were opened around the town of Marlin so people could come and takes bathes in the mineral water, after it was discovered in 1892 during the search for an artesian well.

* Pattern search takes steps along the axes of the search-space using exponentially decreasing step sizes.

The bulk of the game takes place on the search board with combat being resolved on the battle board.

Harry unconditionally loves his Rugby-playing son, and even takes an active part in Jeff's search for Mr. Right.

It is Sir Galahad who takes the initiative to begin the search for the Grail ; the rest of the knights follow him.

" The search for a new charismatic leader ( takes place ) on the basis of the qualities which will fit him for the position of authority.

In all 50 states, shoppers are under no actual obligation to accede to such a search unless the employee has reasonable grounds to suspect shoplifting, and arrests the customer or takes or looks at the receipt from the customer without violating any laws or if the customer has signed a membership agreement which stipulates that customers will subject themselves to inspections before taking the purchased merchandise from the store.

This annual contest takes place across the US each summer in search of the next South Asian-American spelling champ between the ages of 8 and 14 years old.

After any sequence of insertions and deletions of keys, the shape of the tree is a random variable with the same probability distribution as a random binary tree ; in particular, with high probability its height is proportional to the logarithm of the number of keys, so that each search, insertion, or deletion operation takes logarithmic time to perform.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

`` If you become a Baptist, I will not '', Ann informed her husband, but sweeping her threat aside Adoniram continued to search for an answer to the personal dilemma in which he found himself.

Mrs. Meeker had spent a small fortune on a search for him but had made no provision for him in her will if he should be found after her death, and had never mentioned his name to her lawyers.

`` Which is a break as the area to search is less than a square mile '', she added as she swung her legs over the transom.

If they say I could have stopped her it is because they are ignorant of her last weeks of self-examination, her search into herself and its conclusions.

At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on Google.

The Auger emission process was discovered in 1922 by Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist, as a side effect in her competitive search for the nuclear beta electrons with the British physicist Charles Drummond Ellis.

Pseudolus offers to impersonate Lycus and talk his way out of the mess but, his ingenuity flagging, he ends up merely telling the Captain that Philia has disappeared, and that he, " Lycus ," will set out in search of her.

Freyja lends Loki her falcon cloak to search for it ; but upon returning, Loki tells Freyja that Thrymr has hidden the hammer and demanded to marry her in return.

One day when Freyja wakes up and finds Brísingamen missing, she enlists the help of Heimdall to help her search for it.

The story is based in part on Love's life, and involves the main character's search for her place in the world ; it was written by Stu Levy under the name D. J.

The mother ends nursing by leaving her pup at the breeding site to search for food ( pups continue to nurse if given the opportunity ).

More specifically, the researchers found that an eavesdropper can infer the illnesses / medications / surgeries of the user, her family income and investment secrets, despite HTTPS protection in several high-profile, top-of-the-line web applications in healthcare, taxation, investment and web search.

A computer search identifies Hart as the female FBI agent best qualified to go undercover as a contestant, although she pays little attention to her femininity.

In February 2000, Lewinsky appeared on MTV's The Tom Green Show in an episode in which the host took her to his parents ' home in Ottawa in search of fabric for her new business.

Princess Dagmar and her ill-fated fiance Tsarevich Nicholas. The marriage of Princess Dagmar of Denmark to Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovitch. The Anichkov Palace in 1862. The rise of Slavophile ideology in the Russian Empire led Alexander II of Russia to search for a bride for the heir apparent, Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia, in countries other than the German states that had traditionally provided consorts for the tsars.

Mei's disappearance prompts Satsuki and the neighbors to search for her.