Re:O-notation considered harmful (use Analytic Combinatorics...
by Derander on Sunday February 10, 2013 @06:26PM
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If we're being really picky it is possible to deterministically find the median of n elements in \Theta(n) time so we're able to deterministically select as our pivot the median element.
This gives deterministic \Theta(n log n).
As mentioned elsewhere this algorithm has a fairly large constant factor and is not used in practice.
This gives deterministic \Theta(n log n).
As mentioned elsewhere this algorithm has a fairly large constant factor and is not used in practice.