Lecture 23: Examples
December 1st, 2008We went through a series of examples of randomization.
- Randomized median finding: how to apply randomization to divide and conquer
- Randomized MAX 3SAT: The probabilistic method, and designing an approximation algorithm that uses randomness
- The Birthday Paradox: we analyzed the well known phenomenon, and connected it to a problem in hashing (how many items do you need to guarantee a collision in n buckets).
The first two topics were taken from the textbook, and the last topic is covered in the linked notes.
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