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Binary search problem.
By zephyr_23, history, 6 years ago, In English

I am trying to solve this binary search problem (https://www.codechef.com/problems/FAKEBS) on codechef.

I am getting W.A on 3 tasks out of 12 and those are small tasks. I think I am missing some edge cases. Can someone please help ?

Code :- https://ideone.com/VnwXtb

Thanks.

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I missed exactly these cases too.

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The problem is that you aren't counting the numbers that need to be less than x and are less than x. Say if you encounter a number at mid which is less than x and you need a number less than x, you can't use it for swapping later on. Similar thing needs to be done for greater than x case too. You missed this point and so you are failing in those cases. I hope I am making sense.
Here's my AC code for reference : Link.
The sub_h and sub_l variables in my code are what I am talking about.

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