What is the most efficient way to find elements in an unsorted list?

Yes, you would need to examine every number at least once to know if it is less than a specified threshold. If the numbers are not sorted there is nothing you can infer about them.

Yes you need at least linear time. There is no way to know whether an element is smaller than x without checking it, so you have to check every element once.

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