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Develop a divide-and-conquer algorithm that returns True iff \'lst\' is sorted i

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Question

Develop a divide-and-conquer algorithm that returns True iff 'lst' is sorted in non-decreasing order.

Develop a divide-and-conquer algorithm that returns True iff 1st is sorted in non-decreasing order. By non-decreasing, I mean that the elements go from smallest to largest; e.g. [3, 3, 4, 5] is a list sorted in non-decreasing order. Give a recurrence for the worst-case runtime of your algorithm in terms of the length n of the list, and explain how you arrived at your occurrence from your code. [2 marks] State the tightest asymptotic runtime of your algorithm. Use the master theorem if appropriate.

Explanation / Answer

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