Divide and conquer breaks a problem into smaller independent subproblems, solves each recursively, and merges their results. Merge sort, quicksort, and binary search are classic examples, and the Master theorem bounds their running time.
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Divide and conquer breaks a problem into smaller independent subproblems, solves each recursively, and merges their results. Merge sort, quicksort, and binary search are classic examples, and the Master theorem bounds their running time.
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Divide the input, conquer each part recursively, then combine the partial answers.
It gives the running time of many divide-and-conquer recurrences from the split count and work per level.
Prefer it when subproblems are independent, unlike dynamic programming where they overlap.
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Divide-and-conquer subproblems are independent; dynamic programming subproblems overlap and are cached.
Merge sort, quicksort, binary search, and fast exponentiation.
