Selecting the Median

  • Authors:
  • Dorit Dor;Uri Zwick

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Improving a long-standing result of Schönhage, Paterson, and Pippenger [ J. Comput. System Sci., 13 (1976), pp. 184--199] we show that the median of a set containing $n$ elements can always be found using at most $c \cdot n$ comparisons, where c