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). The constant factor in the O(n) is large, and the algorithm is not commonly used in practice.
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Fixing a Median of Medians method I self translated from an algorithm
I'm copying this algorithm straight from a book, but I keep getting an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException at the "ERROR HERE!!!!" part... for the T[i] = ...
It's driving me nuts and I need to get this done... can someone suggest how I can fix this? I…
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Median in 500GB file java
Find median of all numbers in the given 500GB file at the command prompt.
File format eg:
12
4
98
3
with one number in each line(numbers can be repeated).Can anyone please help on how to approach on this in JAVA?
if we have to split the file and…
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