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Perfect simulation from the Quicksort limit distribution

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Perfect simulation from the Quicksort limit distribution
The weak limit of the normalized number of comparisons needed by the Quicksort algorithm to sort n randomly permuted items is known to be determined implicitly by a distributional fixed-point equation. We give an algorithm for perfect random variate generation from this distribution.
Luc Devroye, James Allen Fill, Ralph Neininger
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Updated 17 Dec 2010
Type Journal
Year 2000
Where CORR
Authors Luc Devroye, James Allen Fill, Ralph Neininger
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