Top "Lower-bound" questions

In mathematics, especially in order theory, a lower bound of a subset S of some partially ordered set (K, ≤) is an element of K which is less than or equal to every element of S.

Implementation of C lower_bound

Based on the following definition found here Returns an iterator pointing to the first element in the sorted range [first,…

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std::lower_bound and std::find on a plain array

I like to use std::algorithm whenever I can on plain arrays. Now I have 2 doubts; suppose I want to …

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<algorithm> function for finding last item less-than-or-equal to, like lower_bound

Is there a function in that uses binary search, like lower_bound but that returns the last item less-than-or-equal-to according …

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Difference between basic binary search for upper bound and lower bound?

In the article http://community.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=tutorials&d2=binarySearch, the author discusses binary …

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Java equivalent of c++ equal_range (or lower_bound & upper_bound)

I have a List of object sorted and I want to find the first occurrence and the last occurrence of …

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rationale for std::lower_bound and std::upper_bound?

STL provides binary search functions std::lower_bound and std::upper_bound, but I tend not to use them because …

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Implementation of lower_bound on vector pairs

I know we need to include some compare function in order to achieve this. But not able to write for …

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What are the rules for the "Ω(n log n) barrier" for sorting algorithms?

I wrote a simple program that sorts in O(n). It is highly memory inefficient, but that's not the point. …

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Time complexity analysis for finding the maximum element

I've encountered a homework problem: which of these is an asymptotically tight upper bound for the best-case running time of …

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How to use lower_bound(upper_bound) to find position of any number in array?

For example, I have an array with elements 1,7,9,23,34,47,67,89,123,234,345,567. I need to know the position of 123.

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