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Iterated large deviations

✍ Scribed by Matthias Löwe


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
193 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-7152

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Let Q be the random number of comparisons made by quicksort in sorting n n distinct keys when we assume that all n! possible orderings are equally likely. Known results concerning moments for Q do not show how rare it is for Q to n n make large deviations from its mean. Here we give a good approxima