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Solution: First Bad Version

Explore how to use a modified binary search to find the first bad version in a sequence of software releases. This lesson helps you implement an optimized method that reduces the number of checks needed and runs in logarithmic time, improving efficiency over naive linear search.

Statement

You are managing a product development team, and the latest release has failed quality checks. Because each version is built on top of the previous one, once a version is bad, every version after it is also bad.

You are given an array of n versions [1,2,,n][1, 2, …, n] ...