Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337561916
ISBN 13: 978-1-33756-191-4

Chapter 3 - Exercises - Page 143: 17c

Answer

\begin{array}{l}{\text { From the above, me make a recursive equation. If the time taken to merge }} \\ {\text { sort a list of n elements is } t(n), \text { we get the recursive equation: }} \\ {\qquad t(n)=t(n / 2)+\Theta(n)} \\ {\text { Solving the equation, we get: }} \\ {\qquad t(n)=\Theta(n \log n)}\end{array}

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