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Demo of binary search using bisect
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binary_search_demo.py
>>> l = [10, 15, 18, 20, 21, 21, 21, 24, 24]
>>> binary_search(l, 18)
2
>>> binary_search(l, 21)
4
>>> binary_search(l, 24)
7
>>> binary_search(l, 100)
-1
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