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<h2 id="1261-concept-review">12.6.1 &nbsp; Concept Review<a class="headerlink" href="#1261-concept-review" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
<h3 id="1-which-tasks-are-suitable-for-divide-and-conquer">1. &nbsp; Which Tasks Are Suitable for Divide and Conquer?<a class="headerlink" href="#1-which-tasks-are-suitable-for-divide-and-conquer" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
<p>A student wants to solve each task below by "dividing it into two halves, solving each half separately, and then combining the results."
Classify each task as "suitable for divide and conquer," "can use divide and conquer, but it will not reduce the total work," or "the two halves cannot be solved independently," and explain why.</p>
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<li>Sort an unsorted array.</li>
<li>Find the maximum value in an array.</li>
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<li>Suitable: divide the array in half, sort each half independently, and merge them in <span class="arithmatex">\(O(n)\)</span> time. This is exactly merge sort.</li>
<li>Divide and conquer can be used, but it does not reduce the total work. The two halves still require examining all <span class="arithmatex">\(n\)</span> elements in total,
so the time complexity remains <span class="arithmatex">\(O(n)\)</span>, just like a direct scan.</li>
<li>The two halves cannot be solved independently. The stack's contents at the beginning of the second half depend on the result of executing the first half,
so the two halves cannot be completed without knowing each other's results.</li>
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<h3 id="2-how-exponentiation-by-squaring-reduces-computation">2. &nbsp; How Exponentiation by Squaring Reduces Computation<a class="headerlink" href="#2-how-exponentiation-by-squaring-reduces-computation" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
<p>The recursive function below uses divide and conquer to calculate <span class="arithmatex">\(x^n\)</span>:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><a id="__codelineno-0-1" name="__codelineno-0-1" href="#__codelineno-0-1"></a><span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">fast_pow</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="p">):</span>
<a id="__codelineno-0-2" name="__codelineno-0-2" href="#__codelineno-0-2"></a> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span>
<a id="__codelineno-0-3" name="__codelineno-0-3" href="#__codelineno-0-3"></a> <span class="k">return</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
<a id="__codelineno-0-4" name="__codelineno-0-4" href="#__codelineno-0-4"></a> <span class="n">half</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">fast_pow</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">//</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<a id="__codelineno-0-5" name="__codelineno-0-5" href="#__codelineno-0-5"></a> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span>
<a id="__codelineno-0-6" name="__codelineno-0-6" href="#__codelineno-0-6"></a> <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">half</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">half</span>
<a id="__codelineno-0-7" name="__codelineno-0-7" href="#__codelineno-0-7"></a> <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">half</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">half</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">x</span>
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<p>Use it to calculate <code>fast_pow(3, 5)</code>:</p>
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When <code>n = 2</code>, it returns <span class="arithmatex">\(3×3=9\)</span>. When <code>n = 5</code>, it returns <span class="arithmatex">\(9×9×3=243\)</span>.</p>
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Storing the result in <code>half</code> means that each level makes only one recursive call, so the recursion depth is about <span class="arithmatex">\(\log n\)</span>.
Making two calls would cause a great deal of repeated computation.</p>
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<p>A binary tree has no duplicate nodes. Its preorder and inorder traversals are:</p>
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<li>Preorder: <code>[A, B, D, E, C]</code></li>
<li>Inorder: <code>[D, B, E, A, C]</code></li>
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<p>Split the sequences only once, at the root. You do not need to continue recursively or draw the whole tree:</p>
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<p><code>A</code> divides the inorder traversal into two parts: <code>[D, B, E]</code> for the left subtree and <code>[C]</code> for the right subtree.</p>
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<p>The left subtree contains 3 nodes, so the 3 preorder elements after the root <code>A</code> belong to the left subtree,
giving <code>[B, D, E]</code>. The remaining <code>[C]</code> belongs to the right subtree.
Therefore, the root's left child is <code>B</code>, and its right child is <code>C</code>.</p>
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<h2 id="1262-programming-exercises">12.6.2 &nbsp; Programming Exercises<a class="headerlink" href="#1262-programming-exercises" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
<h3 id="1-exponentiation-by-squaring">1. &nbsp; Exponentiation by Squaring<a class="headerlink" href="#1-exponentiation-by-squaring" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
<p>Given a real number <code>x</code> and an integer <code>n</code>, calculate <span class="arithmatex">\(x^n\)</span> without calling the language's built-in power function.
Use recursive divide and conquer: halve the exponent at each step and reuse the result of the subproblem already calculated.
This exercise defines <span class="arithmatex">\(x^0=1\)</span>, including when <code>x = 0</code>. When <code>n &lt; 0</code>, <code>x != 0</code> is guaranteed, and the answer can be transformed into <span class="arithmatex">\((1/x)^{-n}\)</span>.</p>
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<li>After calculating x to the power n // 2, store the result in half rather than making the recursive call a second time</li>
<li>When n &lt; 0, first change x to 1 / x and then change n to -n; in C++ or Java, first convert n to a 64-bit integer to avoid overflow when negating the smallest 32-bit integer</li>
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