Lecture 4

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

1. Given a recurrence, use the repertoire method to solve it.

Reading assignment

1. Sec 1.3, pages 13 - 15 (until, and including, the second paragraph of page 15).
2. Sec 2.1.

Exercises and review questions

• Questions on current lecture's material
  1. Exercises 1.16 (you may not find the solution in the book useful; email me by Friday morning, if you are getting desperate, to get hints).

• Questions on next lecture's material
  1. Prove by induction that the sum of the first n positive integers is n(n+1)/2.