Answer to Question #58837 in Programming & Computer Science for Smith Peters

Question

Which of the following paradigms helps in the discovery of efficient algorithms?

Answer 1

Answer: c. divide and conquer.
The divide-and-conquer paradigm often helps in the discovery of efficient algorithms. It was the key, for example, to Karatsuba's fast multiplication method, the quicksort and mergesort algorithms, the Strassen algorithm for matrix multiplication, and fast Fourier transforms. In all these examples, the D&C approach led to an improvement in the asymptotic cost of the solution.