
algorithm - Difference between Divide and Conquer Algo and …
Nov 24, 2012 · What is the difference between Divide and Conquer Algorithms and Dynamic Programming Algorithms? How are the two terms different? I do not understand the difference …
Why is Binary Search a divide and conquer algorithm?
Jan 13, 2012 · A proper divide and conquer algorithm will require both parts to be processed. Therefore, many people will not call binary-search a divide and conquer algorithm, it does …
Divide and Conquer Matrix Multiplication - Stack Overflow
Sep 21, 2012 · I am having trouble getting divide and conquer matrix multiplication to work. From what I understand, you split the matrices of size nxn into quadrants (each quadrant is n/2) and …
algorithm - Divide and conquer - why does it work? - Stack Overflow
Mar 27, 2013 · Divide and conquer algorithms work faster because they end up doing less work. Consider the classic divide-and-conquer algorithm of binary search: rather than looking at N …
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In my Algorithms and Data Structures class a first divide-and-conquer algorithm namely merge sort was introduced. While implementing an algorithm for an assignment a few questions …
Divide-and-conquer algorithm for finding the majority element?
Mar 10, 2015 · 2 A simpler divide and conquer algorithm works for the case that there exists more than 1/2 elements which are the same and there are n = 2^k elements for some integer k.
Divide and conquer algorithm for finding the smallest value in the ...
Mar 12, 2016 · Divide-and-conquer is an algorithmic technique that solves a problem by splitting the problem into smaller pieces, solving the problem in each piece, and combining the results …
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Here's a recursive divide and conquer method that at each level removes the smallest and largest values from the combination of the two arrays. Once there are two or less values remaining, …
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Jul 14, 2016 · I understand that the algorithm uses 8 multiplications and 4 additions with time-complexity: The multiplication is done on every n/2 * n/2 matrices. I have few questions on this …
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Jan 8, 2015 · 1 It's true that using divide and conquer the time complexity for finding min and max is O (n). But using divide and conquer the number of comparisons can be reduced to a great …