Find an element in a sequence

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Input

  1. A sequence [math]\displaystyle{ S }[/math].
  2. an element [math]\displaystyle{ x }[/math] of the component type of [math]\displaystyle{ S }[/math].

Output

A boolean value:

  1. [math]\displaystyle{ true }[/math], if [math]\displaystyle{ x }[/math] is currently in [math]\displaystyle{ S }[/math],
  2. [math]\displaystyle{ false }[/math], otherwise.

Objective

N/A

Complexity

Linear

Known algorithms

  1. Find element in sequence iteratively
  2. Find element in sequence recursively