This has to be one of the most exploited (mis?)conceptions of the 21st century. Doctors, employers, websites, software plugins, account agreements, almost everything with which one interacts in the normal course of a…
Given two sorted lists A and B concatenated as a single list AB: Divide the list up into sqrt(n) pieces, each of size sqrt(n). Create one such piece consisting of the sqrt(n) largest elements of the combined list and…
This has to be one of the most exploited (mis?)conceptions of the 21st century. Doctors, employers, websites, software plugins, account agreements, almost everything with which one interacts in the normal course of a…
Given two sorted lists A and B concatenated as a single list AB: Divide the list up into sqrt(n) pieces, each of size sqrt(n). Create one such piece consisting of the sqrt(n) largest elements of the combined list and…