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Divide & Conquer Algorithm: Disalgo

Divide-and-conquer algorithms break problems down into smaller subproblems, solve those subproblems recursively, and then combine the solutions to solve the original problem. They divide a problem into smaller instances of the same problem, conquer the subproblems by solving them recursively, and combine the results to solve the overall problem. Binary search is an example of a divide-and-conquer algorithm, as it divides a sorted array in half at each step to search for a target value.

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Divide & Conquer Algorithm: Disalgo

Divide-and-conquer algorithms break problems down into smaller subproblems, solve those subproblems recursively, and then combine the solutions to solve the original problem. They divide a problem into smaller instances of the same problem, conquer the subproblems by solving them recursively, and combine the results to solve the overall problem. Binary search is an example of a divide-and-conquer algorithm, as it divides a sorted array in half at each step to search for a target value.

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Divide & Conquer Algorithm

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Divide-and-Conquer Algorithm
Divide-and-conquer is a top-down

technique for designing algorithms that consists of dividing the problem into smaller subproblems hoping that the solutions of the subproblems are easier to find and then composing the partial solutions into the solution of the original problem.

Divide-and-conquer paradigm consists of following major phases:


Breaking the problem into several sub-problems

that are similar to the original problem but smaller in size, Solve the sub-problem recursively (successively and independently), and then Combine these solutions to sub problems to create a solution to the original problem.

Binary Search
Binary Search is an extremely well-known
instance of divide-and-conquer paradigm. Given an ordered array of n elements, the basic idea of binary search is that for a given element we "probe" the middle element of the array. We continue in either the lower or upper segment of the array, depending on the outcome of the probe until we reached the required (given) element.

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