Lecture 5

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

1. Express a sum as a recurrence.
2. Solve the recurrence obtained above, using, for example, the repertoire method.
3. Formulate a recurrence as a sum, using the idea of multiplying by a summation factor.
4. Compute the above sum, to solve the recurrence.

Reading assignment

1. Sec 2.1 and 2.2.
2. Sec 2.3, pages 30 and 31.

Exercises and review questions

• Questions on current lecture's material
  1. Exercises 2.13 and 2.19.

• Questions on next lecture's material
  1. Exercises 2.3.