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Asymptotic expansions of the mergesort recurrences

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This note provides exact formulae for the mean and variance of the cost of top-down recursive mergesort. These formulae improve upon earlier results of Flajolet and Golin.

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  1. Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, 115 Taipei, Taiwan , , , , , , TW

    Hsien-Kuei Hwang

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Received: 11 May 1998

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Hwang, HK. Asymptotic expansions of the mergesort recurrences. Acta Informatica 35, 911–919 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002360050147

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