SelectionOrder statisticsHoare's Find algorithm can be used to select p specified order statistics j1, j2, …, jp from a file of n elements simultaneously. We give precise formul for both the average number of
The museum’s Web site was not bound by such modesty, citing Hoare’s “development of the Quicksort algorithm and lifetime contributions to the theory of programming languages.” “Throughout much of the 1960s and ‘70s,” states the museum’s biography of Hoare, “a cen...
The museum’s Web site was not bound by such modesty, citing Hoare’s “development of the Quicksort algorithm and lifetime contributions to the theory of programming languages.” “Throughout much of the 1960s and ‘70s,” states the museum’s biography of Hoare, “a central conc...