Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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1. Suppose you are responsible for organizing and determining the results
of an election. An election has a winner if one person gets at least half
of the votes. For an election with n voters and k candidates, design a
divide and conquer algorithm to determine if the election has a winner
and finds that winner. Your algorithm should run in O(nlogn) and is
allowed to use 0(1) extra memory.
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Transcribed Image Text:1. Suppose you are responsible for organizing and determining the results of an election. An election has a winner if one person gets at least half of the votes. For an election with n voters and k candidates, design a divide and conquer algorithm to determine if the election has a winner and finds that winner. Your algorithm should run in O(nlogn) and is allowed to use 0(1) extra memory.
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