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Implement binary search and its variants (first/last occurrence, search in rotated array).

Binary search is easy to describe and famously easy to get wrong (off-by-one, infinite loops). The signal is a correct template plus the variants (boundaries, rotated arrays) that come up constantly. Here is the answer.

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Binary search is easy to describe and famously easy to get wrong (off-by-one, infinite loops). The signal is a correct template plus the variants (boundaries, rotated arrays) that come up constantly. Here is the answer.

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