Why use binary search if there's ternary search?

Question

I recently heard about ternary search in which we divide an array into 3 parts and compare. Here there will be two comparisons but it reduces the array to n/3. Why don\'t p

Answer 1

What makes you think Ternary search should be faster?

Average number of comparisons:

in ternary search = ((1/3)*1 + (2/3)*2) * ln(n)/ln(3) ~ 1.517*ln(n)
in binary search  =                   1 * ln(n)/ln(2) ~ 1.443*ln(n).

Worst number of comparisons:

in ternary search = 2 * ln(n)/ln(3) ~ 1.820*ln(n)
in binary search  = 1 * ln(n)/ln(2) ~ 1.443*ln(n).

So it looks like ternary search is worse.