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@AKIB473 AKIB473 commented Apr 14, 2026

Describe your change:

Narrowed the generic list type hint to list[int] on both linear_search() and rec_linear_search() for better static type safety.

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  • Add or change doctests?
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  • This PR only changes one algorithm file.
  • All new Python files are placed inside an existing directory.
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  • All function parameters and return values are annotated with Python type hints.
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- Narrowed list[int] generic type annotation on both linear_search()
  and rec_linear_search() for better type safety
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