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CORR
2012
Springer
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The limiting distribution for the number of symbol comparisons used by QuickSort is nondegenerate (extended abstract)
erate (Extended Abstract) Patrick Bindjeme1† and James Allen Fill1 1 Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, The Johns Hopkins University, 34th and Charles Streets, Bal...
Patrick Bindjeme, James Allen Fill
SIAMCOMP
2002
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Phase Change of Limit Laws in the Quicksort Recurrence under Varying Toll Functions
We characterize all limit laws of the quicksort type random variables defined recursively by Xn d = XIn + X n-1-In + Tn when the "toll function" Tn varies and satisfies ...
Hsien-Kuei Hwang, Ralph Neininger