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Re:Sleeping Through the Technical Interview (2022) by squeaky-clean on Saturday July 08, 2023 @08:47PM (#36650276)
It doesn't though. How would merge sort become constant time if you assume a maximum value? It's also a joke...
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Re:Sleeping Through the Technical Interview (2022) by libealistand on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:05AM (#36662676)
The main "value" in the domain of sorting problems is the number of elements in your collection.

A subproblem also considers the elements to be integers, then they become another "value" domain. (But in general, sorting problems only need their elements to be comparable, not necessarily integers.)

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