Top "Median-of-medians" questions

The median-of-medians algorithm is a deterministic, worst-case O(n)-time algorithm for the selection problem (given a list of values, find the kth largest value).

Understanding "median of medians" algorithm

I want to understand "median of medians" algorithm on the following example: We have 45 distinct numbers divided into 9 group with 5 …

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Explanation of the Median of Medians algorithm

The Median of medians approach is very popular in quicksort type partitioning algorithms to yield a fairly good pivot, such …

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median of median implementation

Here is pseudo code for implementation of median by dividing array into 5 groups select(int A[],int first, int last, …

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