• In computer science, divide and conquer is an algorithm design paradigm. A divide-and-conquer algorithm recursively breaks down a problem into two or more...
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  • Divide-and-conquer eigenvalue algorithms are a class of eigenvalue algorithms for Hermitian or real symmetric matrices that have recently (circa 1990s)...
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  • than the cache misses. An alternative to the iterative algorithm is the divide-and-conquer algorithm for matrix multiplication. This relies on the block...
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  • Look up divide and rule or divide and conquer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Divide and conquer or divide and rule (Latin: divide et impera) is a...
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  • cache-oblivious algorithms is to reduce the amount of such tuning that is required. Typically, a cache-oblivious algorithm works by a recursive divide-and-conquer algorithm...
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  • In the analysis of algorithms, the master theorem for divide-and-conquer recurrences provides an asymptotic analysis for many recurrence relations that...
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    incremental algorithm based on rip-and-tent, which is practical and highly parallelized with polylogarithmic span. A divide and conquer algorithm for triangulations...
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    algorithm is a fast multiplication algorithm for integers. It was discovered by Anatoly Karatsuba in 1960 and published in 1962. It is a divide-and-conquer...
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    Merge sort (category Divide-and-conquer algorithms)
    the input and output. Merge sort is a divide-and-conquer algorithm that was invented by John von Neumann in 1945. A detailed description and analysis of...
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    Fast Walsh–Hadamard transform (category Algorithms and data structures stubs)
    {\displaystyle n\log n} additions or subtractions. The FWHTh is a divide-and-conquer algorithm that recursively breaks down a WHT of size n {\displaystyle n}...
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  • cervix to remove uterine contents Divide and conquer algorithm, a strategy for dynamic programming Doctrine and Covenants, part of the scripture of the...
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  • Fibonacci search technique (category Search algorithms)
    search technique is a method of searching a sorted array using a divide and conquer algorithm that narrows down possible locations with the aid of Fibonacci...
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    the shortest path between two points and cracking passwords. Divide and conquer A divide-and-conquer algorithm repeatedly reduces a problem to one or...
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    of algorithms for the problem provides a gentle introduction to a variety of core algorithm concepts, such as big O notation, divide-and-conquer algorithms...
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    time either by using Kadane's algorithm as a subroutine, or through a divide-and-conquer approach. Slightly faster algorithms based on distance matrix multiplication...
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    Quicksort (category Divide-and-conquer algorithms)
    than merge sort and heapsort for randomized data, particularly on larger distributions. Quicksort is a divide-and-conquer algorithm. It works by selecting...
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  • the sequence into two halves, summing each half, and adding the two sums: a divide and conquer algorithm. Its worst-case roundoff errors grow asymptotically...
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    knight's tour on a given board with a computer. Some of these methods are algorithms, while others are heuristics. A brute-force search for a knight's tour...
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    Visibility polygon (category Geometric algorithms)
    segments. A divide-and-conquer algorithm to compute the visibility polygon was proposed in 1987. An angular sweep, i.e. rotational plane sweep algorithm to compute...
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  • approach to finding a MDS is divide-and-conquer. A typical algorithm in this approach looks like the following: Divide the given set of shapes into two...
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  • Bisection (software engineering) (category Algorithms)
    minimizing the effort to find a specific change set. It employs a divide and conquer algorithm that depends on having access to the code history which is usually...
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    far the most commonly used FFT is the Cooley–Tukey algorithm. This is a divide-and-conquer algorithm that recursively breaks down a DFT of any composite...
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  • algorithm, a faster generalization of the Karatsuba algorithm that permits recursive divide-and-conquer decomposition into more than 2 blocks at a time Strassen...
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  • Samplesort (category Sorting algorithms)
    sorting algorithm that is a divide and conquer algorithm often used in parallel processing systems. Conventional divide and conquer sorting algorithms partitions...
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  • case. Divide and conquer, a.k.a. merge hull — O(n log n) Another O(n log n) algorithm, published in 1977 by Preparata and Hong. This algorithm is also...
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    Dichotomic search (category Search algorithms)
    they are more than two) at each step. It is a specific type of divide and conquer algorithm. A well-known example is binary search. Abstractly, a dichotomic...
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    Closest pair of points problem (category Divide-and-conquer algorithms)
    and this is optimal for this model, by a reduction from the element uniqueness problem. Both sweep line algorithms and divide-and-conquer algorithms with...
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  • coefficients. Algorithm uses divide and conquer strategy, to divide problem to subproblems. It has a time complexity of O(n log(n) log(log(n))). The algorithm was...
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  • (May 2013), "A fast divide-and-conquer algorithm for computing the spectra of real symmetric tridiagonal matrices.", Applied and Computational Harmonic...
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  • divide and conquer algorithms where the sub-problems have substantially different sizes. It is a generalization of the master theorem for divide-and-conquer...
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