A database search algorithm is designed to locate a specific record among 'n' entries. What happens to the worst-case execution time as 'n' doubles?

💡 Explanation

If a binary search algorithm is applied to a sorted database, its complexity is O(log n); because the search space halves with each step, therefore doubling 'n' increases the execution time by a logarithmic factor, rather than linearly or quadratically.

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