Practice - Comparative Strategy for Sorting
Practice Questions
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What is merge sort?
💡 Hint: Think of how it divides the list.
What do we do when one of the lists to merge is empty?
💡 Hint: What happens if there's nothing to merge?
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What algorithm does merge sort utilize?
💡 Hint: Think about how it breaks down the problem.
Merge sort is more efficient than which of the following for large lists?
💡 Hint: Recall the performance of each algorithm for large inputs.
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Challenge Problems
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Demonstrate merge sort on the array [38, 27, 43, 3, 9, 82, 10], showing each step of the divide and merge process.
💡 Hint: Keep breaking down until you have single elements, then start merging them back.
Write a Python function to implement merge sort for a list of integers, including handling edge cases.
💡 Hint: Remember to handle scenarios where lists may be already sorted.
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