How the Algorithms Work
To see how the algorithms can be used on varying types of containers, let’s look a bit more closely at find. Its job is to find a particular element in an unsorted sequence of elements. Conceptually, we can list the steps find must take:
1. It accesses the first element in the sequence.
2. It compares that element to the value we want.
3. If this element matches the one we want, find returns a value that identifies this element.
4. Otherwise, find advances to the next element and repeats steps 2 and 3.
5. find must stop when it has reached the end of the sequence.
6. If find gets to the end of the sequence, it needs to return a value indicating that the element was not found. This value and the one returned from step 3 ...
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