Skip to Content
C++ How to Program, 10/e
book

C++ How to Program, 10/e

by Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel
February 2016
Beginner
1080 pages
207h 57m
English
Pearson
Content preview from C++ How to Program, 10/e

Self-Review Exercises

  1. 20.1 Fill in the blanks in each of the following statements:

    1. A selection sort application would take approximately              times as long to run on a 128-element array as on a 32-element array.

    2. The efficiency of merge sort is             .

  2. 20.2 What key aspect of both the binary search and the merge sort accounts for the logarithmic portion of their respective Big Os?

  3. 20.3 In what sense is the insertion sort superior to the merge sort? In what sense is the merge sort superior to the insertion sort?

  4. 20.4 In the text, we say that after the merge sort splits the array into two sub-arrays, it then sorts these two sub-arrays and merges them. Why might someone be puzzled by our statement that “it then sorts these ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

C++ How to Program, Sixth Edition

C++ How to Program, Sixth Edition

P. J. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc., H. M. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc.
C++ How to Program, Ninth Edition

C++ How to Program, Ninth Edition

Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780134448930Purchase book