Lecture 3: Divide and Conquer/Recursion

August 26th, 2007

In Monday’s lecture, we will cover material from Ch. 5 of the textbook. Specifically, we will examine the role of divide-and-conquer in designing efficient algorithms for mergesort (5.1), multiplying numbers (5.5), and computing the closest pair of a set of points in the plane (5.4).

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