COP 4531: Lecture 4

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

1. Given a recurrence, solve it using the method of substitution, and prove the correctness of your solution using induction.
2. Given a recurrence, solve it using the recursion-tree method, and prove the correctness of your solution using induction.

Reading assignment

1. Lectures 3-5 slides.
2. CLR: Sections 4.3-4.4.

Exercises and review questions

• Questions on current lecture's material
  1. Exercise 4.3-1.
  2. Exercise 4.4-6.

• Questions on next lecture's material
  1. None.