Comparison of Linear and Binary Search

• How much smaller is log(N) than N for large N?

• Key fact to remember:

  2^10 = 1024 ~ 10^3 log(10^3) ~ 10
  
  2^20 = 1024^2 ~ 10^6 log(10^6) ~ 20
  2^30 = 1024^3 ~ 10^9 log(10^9) ~ 30

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