Rates of convergence for Quicksort

Journal of Algorithms

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 52-62

  Neininger, Ralph ^a   Rüschendorf, Ludger ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analysis of algorithms; Contraction method; Local approximation; Quicksort; Rate of convergence; Zolotarev metric

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; SORTING; THEOREM PROVING;

LOCAL APPROXIMATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0036660378     PISSN: 01966774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-6774(02)00206-7     Document Type: Article

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