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Quicksort asymptotics
James Allen Fill, Svante Janson
The number of comparisons X_n used by Quicksort to sort an array of n distinct numbers has mean mu_n of order n log n and standard deviation of order n. Using different methods, Re…
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Approximating the limiting Quicksort distribution
James Allen Fill, Svante Janson
The limiting distribution of the normalized number of comparisons used by Quicksort to sort an array of n numbers is known to be the unique fixed point with zero mean of a certain…