Questions tagged [runtime-analysis]
Questions about methods for estimating the increase in runtime of an algorithm as the input size increases.
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Knapsack Problem with Constraints on Item Values
Given $n$ items with weights $w_1,...,w_n$ and values $v_1,...,v_n$, and a weight limit $W$, the purpose is still maximizing the total value of items to be carried (while not exceeding the weight ...
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How to calculate the runtime of a following code?
Could someone explain how to calculate the Big O notation for a runtime of a snippet of a code?
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How to Reconcile Apparent Discrepancy in this Algorithm's Runtime?
I'm currently working through Algorithms by Dr. Jeff Erickson. The following is an algorithm presented in the book:
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How to calcualte the Big-O complexity of the following algorithm?
I have been trying to calculate the Big-O of the following algorithm and it is coming out to be O(n^5) for me. I don't know what the correct answer is but most of my colleagues are getting O(n^3).
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Intro to Algorithms: asymptotic function analysis
I'm reading "Introduction to Algorithms" 3rd edition by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein Page 46. The authors place formal upper and lower bounds on a function which is quadratic. Can ...
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What does increasing the input size by a factor of 100 do to a linearthimic algorithm with the complexity of 2nlog(n)
So far what I've tried to do is break this into parts and work from there
So for the $2n$, increasing by a factor of 100 means the runtime goes up by 100 times
But I get stuck with the log(n) part. ...
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Why is $\log n+\log \frac{n}{2}+\log \frac{n}{4}+\log \frac{n}{8}+\cdots+\log \frac{n}{n}=\Theta (\log^2 n)$?
$$\log n+\log \frac{n}{2}+\log\frac{n}{4}+\log\frac{n}{8}+\cdots+\log\frac{n}{n}=\Theta (\log^2n).$$
The sum of logarithms is the logarithm of the product $n\cdot\frac{n}{2}\cdot\frac{n}{4}\cdot\frac{...
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Why is $\sum_{i=0}^n\sqrt{i}\log_2^2i \geq \Omega(n\sqrt{n}\log_2n)$?
Where $\Omega(f)$ denotes the set of functions with f as lower bound, why is $\sum_{i=0}^n\sqrt{i}\log_2^2i \geq \Omega(n\sqrt{n}\log_2n)$?
How can the function on the left be compared to a whole set?...
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Count Unique Subsequences to Destination?
I am looking at this post:
Jamie is walking along a number line that starts at point 0 and ends at point n. She can move either one step to the left or one step to the right of her current location , ...
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Essence of the cost benifit obtained by using “markings” in Fibonacci Heaps (by using a mathematical approach)
The following excerpts are from the section Fibonacci Heap from the text Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et. al
The authors deal with a notion of marking the nodes of Fibonacci Heaps with the ...
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Intuition behind the entire (amortized) concept of Fibonacci Heap operations
The following excerpts are from the section Fibonacci Heap from the text Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et. al
The potential function for the Fibonacci Heaps $H$ is defined as follows:
$$\Phi(H)...
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$\Phi_1=1$ or $\Phi_1=2$ for the dynamic $\text{Table-Insert}$ , where $\Phi_i$ is the potential function after $i$ th operation, as per CLRS
The following comes from section Dynamic Tables, Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen. et. al.
In the following pseudocode, we assume that $T$ is an object representing the table. The field $table[T]$...
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Complexity of approximating a function value using queries
I am looking for information on problems of the following kind.
There is a function $f: [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}$ that is continuous and monotonically-increasing, with $f(0)<0$ and $f(1)>0$. You ...
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What is considered an asymptotic improvement for graph algorithms?
Lets say we are trying to solve some algorithmic problem $A$ that is dependent on input of size $n$.
We say algorithm $B$ that runs in time $T(n)$, is asymptotically better than algorithm $C$ which ...
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Complexity analysis of m!/n!(m-n)!
Given the runtime of an algorithm to be m!/(n!*(m-n)!) That is mCn, where both m and n are variables, is the complexity factorial or polynomial? Or is it something else?
Please elaborate.
Thanks
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Checking equality of integers: O(1) in C but O(log n) in Python 3?
Consider these equivalent functions in C and Python 3. Most devs would immediately claim both are $O(1)$.
def is_equal(a: int, b: int) -> bool:
return a == b
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What is the expected time complexity of checking equality of two arbitrary strings?
The simple (naive?) answer would be O(n) where n is the length of the shorter string. Because in the worst case you must compare every pair of characters.
So far so good. I think we can all agree that ...
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Tight upper bound for forming an $n$ element Red-Black Tree from scratch
I learnt that in a order-statistic tree (augmented Red-Black Tree, in which each node $x$ contains an extra field denoting the number of nodes in the sub-tree rooted at $x$) finding the $i$ th order ...
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Do we have to calculate time for declaring statement in RAM model?
Do we have to calculate time for declaring statement, in my case int num3 statement. The following question was asked by professor as a post-lecture quiz. I ...
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In Hashing-collison resolved by chaining: Intuition behind $O(1) + \alpha= \Theta(1+\alpha)=O(1)+1+\frac{\alpha}{2}-\frac{\alpha}{2n}$
Hashing-collison resolved by chaining: $O(1) + \alpha= \Theta(1+\alpha)=O(1)+1+\frac{\alpha}{2}-\frac{\alpha}{2n}$
I was going through the text Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et. al. and in the ...
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trouble solving the recurrence 4T(n/2) + n
I am having trouble figuring out how to solve this recurrence problem...
$$
\begin{aligned}
&4T(n/2) + n \\
= &4(4T(n/4) + n/4) + n \\
= &16T(n/4) + 2n \\
= &4^kT(n/2^k) + kn
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For selection in worst-case linear time ambiguity in consideration of $n$ for which $T(n) =O(1)$ and $T(n)\leq cn$
I was going through the text Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et. al. where I came across the recurrence relation for analyzing the time complexity of the linear SELECT algorithm and I felt that ...
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Intuition of lower bound for finding the minimum of $n$ (distinct) elements is $n-1$ as dealt with in CLRS
I was going through the text Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et. al. where there was a discussion regarding the fact that finding the minimum of a set of $n$ (distinct) elements with $n-1$ ...
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Is it correct or incorrect to say that an input say $C$ causes an average run-time of an algorithm?
I was going through the text Introduction to Algorithm by Cormen et. al. where I came across an excerpt which I felt required a bit of clarification.
Now as far as I have learned that that while the ...
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Clarification of the analysis of the worst case situation of quicksort as dealt with in CLRS
I was going through the text Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et. al. and I came across their analysis of the worst case of the quicksort algorithm. I could not quite understand a few specific ...
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Clarifying $\sum_{h=0}^{\lfloor lg(n)\rfloor}\lceil\frac{n}{2^{h+1}}\rceil O(h)=O(n\sum_{h=0}^{\lfloor lg(n)\rfloor}\frac{h}{2^h})$ in BUILD-MAX-HEAP
I was going the text Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et. al. Where I came across a step in the analysis of the time complexity of the $BUILD-MAX-HEAP$ procedure.
The procedure is as follows:
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Proving building a balanced BST out of sorted array is $\Theta(n)$
I'm having hard time proving building a balanced BST out of sorted array is $\Theta(n)$
I got the following formula: $$T(n)=2T(\frac{n}{2})+\Theta(1)$$
I tried to prove it by induction but got stuck ...
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Is this algorithm for Exact Three Cover sub-exponential, because I find $length(s)/3$ combinations for $C$?
Given an input $S$ (set of elements) find an exact three cover for a list of 3-element sets named $C$.
$S$ = 1,2,3,4,5,6
$C$ = [1,2,3],[4,5,6],[3,1,2]
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1.Sort list and delete occurrences of ...
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Calculate the number of iterations in unusual nested loop
I am trying to calculate the number of iterations of a sequence of nested loops of the form:
\begin{equation}
N = \sum_{j=0}^{j_T} \sum_{k=0}^{j} \sum_{l=0}^{k} \sum_{n=n_0}^{n_T} 1
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Running Time Analysis of a Simple Binary Search Algorithm
I'm stuck with the following problem by Skiena (The Algorithm Design Manual, p. 106):
Problem: Give an efficient algorithm to determine whether two sets (of
size $m$ and $n$, respectively) are ...
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Little O notation relationship
Given the functions $š(š)=š^{n}$ and $š(š)=10^{10n}$, I am trying to establish the following relationship: $š(š)\notin o(š(š))$.
I know to show for the opposite, $š(š)\in o(š(š))$, I ...
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Time complexity analysis of 2 arbitrary algorithms - prove or disprove
We are given 2 algorithms A and B such that for each input size, algorithm A performs half the number of steps algorithm B performs on the same input size.
We denote the worst time complexity of each ...
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What is the running time of generating all $k$ combinations of $n$ items $\binom{n}{k}$?
I was solving the following problem, just for reference (441 - Lotto). It basically requires the generation all $k$-combinations of $n$ items
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Algorithm Analysis of Three nested loop
I'm trying to figure out Time function and Big O of a nested loop code,
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Worst case running time of lexicographical sorting of a list of n strings each of length n using merge sort
This same question has been asked here so many times by several people. This is a problem which was asked in an entrance exam.
And I am having difficulties in digesting the correct answer of this ...
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Minimum Subsequence Sum Algorithm Verification
I have an algorithm which is meant to solve the following computational problem:
Input: Sequence of positive integers
Output: A Sub-sequence of some desired length derived from original Sequence such ...
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What is the runtime of this pseudocode?
I need help figuring out the runtime of the following pseudocode. I believe it is O(|E| + |V|), but I'm not totally sure...
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Why Is My Proof Of Asymptomatic Time Complexity Of A Dynamic Array Using The Accounting Method Getting A Wrong Answer?
I had trouble formatting the summation symbols, so if anyone knows how to do it correctly feel free to edit.
I just read the asymptomatic analysis chapter from CLRS. While the aggregation and ...
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How to represent a recurrence that increments by one at each tree level?
I am using a merge sort like algorithm. Each level of the tree has a different Big O runtime. The runtime as a whole can be represent as follows:
$$O(\sum_{i=0}^{log(n)}2^{\frac{n}{2^i}} * 2^i)$$
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Is the usage for asymptotic notation for these algorithms correct? [duplicate]
So after reading a lot of information around asymptotic analysis of algorithms and the use of Big O / Big Ī© and Ī, I'm trying to grasp how to utilise this in the best way when representing algorithms ...
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How to solve recurrence. T(n). = T(n-1) + T(n/2) + n?
I am aware that to get a running time by recursion tree method, we need to draw a tree and find:
a) number of levels in tree.
Since left side of tree decreases by 1 in size, so it's longest path ...
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Quicksort with lomuto partition - how many repeating elements are too many?
I know that quicksort with Lomuto's partition method faces worst case run-time $\Theta(n^2)$ when there are many repeating elements in the array.
However, I'm trying to figure out - how many ...
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Solving the recurrence of recursive insertion sort
I have solved that the recurrence of running time of the algorithm given as
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T(n) = \begin{cases} \Theta(1) & \text{if n=1} \\ T(n-1)+\Theta(n) & \text{otherwise} \end{cases}
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So the ...
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Algorithms: Determining Asymptotic Notation from a given execution time
I'm studying for an Algorithms and Data Structure test. There is a type of question that is usually always asked by my professor but I don't know how to answer/solve it.
Question 1: An Algorithm with ...
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Worst-case expected running time for Randomized Permutation Algorithm
I have an algorithm which, when given a positive integer N, generates a permutation of the first N integers (from 1 to N) using a method called randInt(x,y). The method randInt(x,y) will generate a ...
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Is using Fibonacci Heaps in Huffman Code, better than a regular Min-heap?
When using Huffman Code, to generate prefix-code trees for a sequence of letters, CLRS choose to use a normal Min-heap data structure.
Using Fibonacci-heaps instead, are we not able to achieve a ...
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Can someone let me know if my understanding of amortized run time in a dynamic array list is correct?
Am I right in my understanding for amortized time for insertion in a dynamic array list? (dynamic means create a copy double its size and copy existing elements to new one WHEN we reach the current ...
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Does the word “efficient” usually refer to polynomial time or polylogarithmic time?
This question is strictly about terminology.
I'm not an expert in CS, but I've almost always seen the word "efficient" applied to an algorithm to mean "of polynomial runtime". E.g. this question and ...
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Can a more powerful encoding of an input make an algorithm that is polynomial in the number of inputs become exponential?
This is probably a very basic question but one that I am having trouble finding a definitive answer for since this kind of thing is skimmed over in most introductory algorithms courses. Take an ...
