//Order Agnostic Binary Search implementation in JAVA public class OrderAgnosticBinarySearch { static int orderAgnosticBinarySearch(int[] arr, int target) { int start = 0; int end = arr.length - 1; // find whether the array is sorted in ascending or descending boolean isAsc = arr[start] < arr[end]; while(start <= end) { // find the middle element // int mid = (start + end) / 2; // might be possible that (start + end) exceeds the range of int in java int mid = start + (end - start) / 2; if (arr[mid] == target) { return mid; } if (isAsc) { if (target < arr[mid]) { end = mid - 1; } else { start = mid + 1; } } else { if (target > arr[mid]) { end = mid - 1; } else { start = mid + 1; } } } return -1; } public static void main(String[] args) { int[] arr = {1, 5, 10, 20, 30}; int target = 30; int ans = orderAgnosticBinarySearch(arr, target); System.out.println(ans); } } //rename to OrderAgnosticBinarySearch to run.