Practice - Base Case and Unwinding the Recursion
Practice Questions
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What is the time complexity of the merge operation?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens as you merge the two lists.
Explain the base case in the context of Merge Sort.
💡 Hint: Think about what happens with very small lists.
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What is the primary purpose of the merge function?
💡 Hint: Think about the primary operation that merge is designed for.
True or False: The time complexity of Merge Sort is O(n).
💡 Hint: Recall the two main phases in the sorting process.
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Challenge Problems
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Prove that the time complexity of the Merge Sort algorithm is O(n log n) by writing out the recurrence and solving it.
💡 Hint: Recall how to express recursive functions as tree structures for analysis.
Write an algorithm that uses the merge function to create a union of two lists, using the property of sorted lists to omit duplicates.
💡 Hint: Consider how to efficiently skip duplicates as you perform the merge.
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