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Quicksort and Large Deviations.

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Quicksort may be the most familiar and important randomised algorithm studied in computer science. It is well known that the expected number of comparisons on any input of n distinct keys is Θ(n ln n), and the probability of a large deviation above the expected value is very small. This probability was well estimated some time ago, with an ad-hoc proof: we shall revisit this result in the light of further work on concentration. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.

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10.1007/978-3-642-36046-6_5

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Publisher:
Springer
Journal:
MEMICS More from this journal
Volume:
7721
Pages:
43-52
Publication date:
2012-01-01
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1611-3349
ISSN:
0302-9743


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English
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pubs:365269
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uuid:252e335b-84cc-4256-958f-491b86acf21e
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2013-11-17
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