An automated inventory management drone is designed to locate a specific pallet ID within a high-density warehouse storage aisle containing N N\,N distinct pallets. The control system is programmed to use a binary search algorithm to find the pallet's coordinate.
Explain the fundamental condition that the indexing or physical arrangement of the pallets in the aisle must satisfy for this binary search algorithm to function correctly.
33 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Computer Science Searching algorithms. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.