Computers and Technology

This problem has to do with the choice of a pivot in quicksort. (a) Describe the property that the pivot must satisfy in order for quicksort to have its best-case running time.
(b) Explain how the order statistics algorithm described in class can be used to generate a good pivot. What is the worst-case running time of this algorithm? What is the expected running time of this algorithm?

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