a. Suppose you are using a Quicksort algorithm that always selects the first value in the list
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a. Suppose you are using a Quicksort algorithm that always selects the first value in the list as pivot. Give an example input sequence that take Θ (n 2 ) time to complete.
b. Suppose Quicksort could always pivot on the median of the current sublist. What would Quicksort’s performance (expressed in terms of Θ) be in the worst case?
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Authors: Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, Michael H. Goldwasser
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