Practice - Efficiency of Combining Results
Practice Questions
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What is merge sort used for?
💡 Hint: Think about the size and organization of data.
Describe what happens when one list is exhausted during merging.
💡 Hint: Remember the process of combining two lists.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the time complexity of merge sort?
💡 Hint: Consider the difference in performance between algorithms.
Merge sort is a stable sorting algorithm. True or False?
💡 Hint: Think about how items are handled in a sorted list.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a list of integers, create a Python function implementing merge sort and explain how recursion is utilized.
💡 Hint: Remember to test the function with various lists to ensure performance.
Discuss the implications of using merge sort with a large dataset in terms of both time and space complexity.
💡 Hint: Compare with other algorithms to see merging's impact.
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