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PHP 7 Data Structures and Algorithms
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PHP 7 Data Structures and Algorithms

by Mizanur Rahman
May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
8h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding divide-and-conquer technique for sorting

So far, we have explored the sorting option with a full list of numbers. As a result, we had a big list of numbers to compare every time. This can be solved if we can somehow make the list smaller. The divide-and-conquer method can be very helpful for us. With this method, we will divide a problem into two or more subproblems or sets, and then solve the smaller problems before combining all those results from the subproblems to get the final result. This is what is known as divide-and-conquer.

The divide-and-conquer method can allow us to solve our sorting problems efficiently and reduce the complexity of our algorithm. Two of the most popular sorting algorithms are merge sort and quick ...

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