What are the two base cases for a recursive binary search algorithm?
What will be an ideal response?
One base case for the recursive binary search algorithm is the key not found case in which
the index of the first element of the array is greater than the index of the last element of the array.
The second base case for the recursive binary search algorithm is when the key is found, which is
represented by the key being equal to the value in the array at the current midpoint.
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