/* Description: Index of first 1 in a sorted array of 0s and 1s. Given a sorted array consisting 0’s and 1’s. The task is to find the index of first ‘1’ in the given array. Approach: Use binary search to solve in least time complexity (O log n). */ #include #include using namespace std; int firstIndex(int a[], int n) { int low=0; int high=n-1; while(low<=high) { int mid = (low+high)/2; //if mid appears to be 0, update low as mid+1 index because we want to search 1 in array if(a[mid]==0){ low=mid+1; } //checking if mid element is 1 and the element at mid-1 is 0 //if it is so, then we have found index of first 1 //simply return mid else if(a[mid]==1 && (mid==0 || a[mid-1]==0)){ return mid; } //updating the high to mid-1 //because the element at mid-1 index is not zero else if (a[mid]==1){ high=mid-1; } } //if index not found, return -1 return -1; } int main() { int n; cout << "Enter number of elements in an array\n"; cin>>n; int a[n]; cout<<"Enter array elements: (only 0 and 1 in sorted order)\n"; for(int i=0;i>a[i]; } //if someone forgets to pass sorted array sort(a,a+n); int ind = firstIndex(a,n); cout<<"Index of first 1 in sorted array: "<