Chengwei LEI, Ph.D.    Associate Professor

Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
California State University, Bakersfield

CMPS 3120 Algorithm Analysis

 

Divide and Conquer

 


Computing the height of a binary tree:

Our "dummy" tree structure: (PS: node 1 is the root node)

which means, given a data like this:

1 2 3
2 4 5
4 0 0
5 0 0
3 0 6
6 0 0

The tree should looks like


 

 

What is Divide and Conquer ?

Use D&C idea to solve this problem (hint)


Divide and Conquer in sorting algorithm

Solution