Median Can be found out in O(n) times (kth order statistic)

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Akash Gangil <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Amir
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Amir hossein Shahriari <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> both problems can be done in O(n)
>> pick the first two elements count the number of their appearances in the
>> array ( O(n) )
>> if they are not the result we now that there is an element that is
>> repeated n times in 2n-1 elements and we can do the moore's algorithm for
>> finding it here's a link to this algorithm:
>> userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/best-ideas/mjrty/index.html<http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/%7Emoore/best-ideas/mjrty/index.html>
>>
>> I didnt understand the algo correctly what is the sequence is
>
>
> C C C C C A A B B A B
>
> now the last current candidate is B 1
> but B is certainly not in majority. Can you please explain that to me?
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