Dsa
Binary Search
Medium
Temperature Record Search
A weather station records daily temperatures in a year. The temperatures are sorted in ascending order. Given a target temperature, find if it is recorded in the list. If found, return the index of the first occurrence; otherwise, return -1.
Input format:
- The first line contains an integer n, the number of days (1 ≤ n ≤ 365).
- The second line contains n sorted integers (the temperatures).
- The third line contains the target temperature t.
Output format:
- Print the index of the first occurrence of t or -1 if not found.
Example:
Input:
7
10 12 14 14 15 17 20
14
Output:
2
Key concepts
binary_searcharrayssorting
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