Coding style fixes and improvements
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### binarySearch
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Use recursion. Similar to `Array.indexOf()` that finds the index of a value within an array.
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Use recursion. Similar to `Array.indexOf()` that finds the index of a value within an array.
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The difference being this operation only works with sorted arrays which offers a major performance boost due to it's logarithmic nature when compared to a linear search or `Array.indexOf()`.
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Search a sorted array by repeatedly dividing the search interval in half.
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Begin with an interval covering the whole array.
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If the value of the search is less than the item in the middle of the interval, recurse into the lower half. Otherwise recurse into the upper half.
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Search a sorted array by repeatedly dividing the search interval in half.
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Begin with an interval covering the whole array.
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If the value of the search is less than the item in the middle of the interval, recurse into the lower half. Otherwise recurse into the upper half.
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Repeatedly recurse until the value is found which is the mid or you've recursed to a point that is greater than the length which means the value doesn't exist and return `-1`.
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```js
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if (arr[mid] > val) return binarySearch(arr, val, start, mid - 1);
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if (arr[mid] < val) return binarySearch(arr, val, mid + 1, end);
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return mid;
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}
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```
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};
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```
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```js
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binarySearch([1, 4, 6, 7, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24], 6); // 2
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