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Problems with RSolve...

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  • Subject: [mg14541] Problems with RSolve...
  • From: matt <housemat at wam.umd.edu>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:33:35 -0500
  • Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I'm having problems with RSolve when applying it to the following type
of recurrence
relation:

T(n) = 2 T(n/2) +n -1

(The type of relation you get when analyzing Merge-Sort).  I can't seem
to get
Mathematica to give me an analytical solution.  Does anyone have any
ideas as to why?

thanks,

matt
housemat at wam.umd.edu



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