Asymptotic expansions of the mergesort recurrences (Q1127820)

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Asymptotic expansions of the mergesort recurrences
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1186252

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    Asymptotic expansions of the mergesort recurrences (English)
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    10 September 1998
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    This note provides exact formulae for the mean and variance of the cost of top-down recursive mergesort. These formulae improve upon earlier results of \textit{P. Flajolet} and \textit{M. Golin} [ibid. 31, 673-696 (1994; Zbl 0818.68064)].
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    recursive mergesort
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