A binary search is a dichotomic divide and conquer search algorithm.

The French finally acquired the islands through a cunning mixture of strategies, including the policy of ' divide and conquer ', chequebook politics and a serendipitous affair between a sultana and a French trader that was put to good use by the French, who kept control of the islands, quelling unrest and the occasional uprising.

A divide and conquer algorithm for triangulations in two dimensions is due to Lee and Schachter which was improved by Guibas and Stolfi and later by Dwyer.

This is a divide and conquer algorithm that recursively breaks down a DFT of any composite size N = N < sub > 1 </ sub > N < sub > 2 </ sub > into many smaller DFTs of sizes N < sub > 1 </ sub > and N < sub > 2 </ sub >, along with O ( N ) multiplications by complex roots of unity traditionally called twiddle factors ( after Gentleman and Sande, 1966 ).

Some Marxists, together with others on the left, view nationalism, racism ( including anti-Semitism ), and religion, as divide and conquer strategies used by the ruling classes to prevent the working class from uniting against them.

Merge sort is a divide and conquer algorithm that was invented by John von Neumann in 1945.

Sorting algorithms are prevalent in introductory computer science classes, where the abundance of algorithms for the problem provides a gentle introduction to a variety of core algorithm concepts, such as big O notation, divide and conquer algorithms, data structures, randomized algorithms, best, worst and average case analysis, time-space tradeoffs, and upper and lower bounds.

Having been appointed governor of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis ( modern Provence ) in 58 BC, Julius Caesar proceeded to conquer the Gallic tribes beyond over the next few years, maintaining control through a careful divide and rule strategy.

Fascist colonial policy in Italian East Africa had a divide and conquer characteristic.

At the same time, many thoughtful hippies distanced themselves from the very idea that the way a person dresses could be a reliable signal of who he was — especially after outright criminals such as Charles Manson began to adopt superficial hippie characteristics, and also after plainclothes policemen started to " dress like hippies " in order to divide and conquer legitimate members of the counter-culture.

The British had practised communal favoritism towards Christians and the minority Tamil community for the entire 200 years they had controlled Sri Lanka, as part of a policy of divide and conquer.

However, Zhuge Liang opposed ending the alliance and in fact confirmed it with a formal treaty later that year, in which the two states pledged to support each other and divide Wei equally if they could conquer it.

The overall effect of the division was to alienate the Pashtun tribes from their neighbors as part of the British divide and conquer strategy, or divide and rule.

Lodge believed Nhu's influence had risen to unprecedented levels and that Nhu's divide and conquer tactics had split the military into three power groups.

However, when the overlapping problems are much smaller than the original problem, the strategy is called " divide and conquer " rather than " dynamic programming ".

The municipalities were merged into one in 1917, after accusations that the government was acting according to the motto " divide and conquer " and they were accorded the status of wards ( quartiers ) thereafter.

To this end, the war effort of Mordor was focused in the south in and around Gondor, in a strategy of divide and conquer.

However, Sauron's divide and conquer strategy was ultimately foiled and a united front of Gondor and Rohan's forces faced Mordor.

He played the divide and conquer game.

During the Great War ( 1683 – 90 ) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League — created with the sponsorship of the Pope and including Austria, Poland and Venice — these three powers as means of divide and conquer strategy, incited including Serbs to rebel against the Ottoman authorities and soon uprisings and terrorism spread throughout the western Balkans: from Montenegro and the Dalmatian Coast to the Danube basin and Old Serbia ( Macedonia, Raška, Kosovo and Metohija ).

The Technocracy is likewise divided into groups ; unlike the Traditions, however, they share a single paradigm, and instead divide themselves based upon methodologies and areas of expertise.

In computer science, divide and conquer ( D & C ) is an important algorithm design paradigm based on multi-branched recursion.

Young performing in August 2004From there, he was known to divide his time between family, the informal Tex-Mex group Los Pacaminos, and performing live during 1980s revival tours in the UK between 2001 and 2008.

He is one of the few NZ musicians who has managed to successfully cross the rock / house genre divide, performing successfully in both.

Similarly, the Mandé societies in Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Côte d ' Ivoire, Liberia, Senegal and Sierra Leone have social stratification systems that divide society by ethnic ties.

He gained popularity in regulating the finances by attempting to divide the taille capitation tax more equally, by abolishing the vingtième d ' industrie, and establishing monts de piété ( establishments for loaning money on security ).

Consider an MDCT with 2N inputs and N outputs, where we divide the inputs into four blocks ( a, b, c, d ) each of size N / 2.

* the second coefficient, a < sub > d − 1 </ sub >, can be computed as follows: the lattice L induces a lattice L < sub > F </ sub > on any face F of P ; take the ( d − 1 )- dimensional volume of F, divide by 2d ( L < sub > F </ sub >), and add those numbers for all faces of P ;

( For example: If the total distance on tape measure from one end of the pile to the other is 30 units, divide by 2 to get 15. d = 15 )

Using your scientific calculator, divide height ( h calculated in Step 2 ) by the distance ( d calculated in Step 3 ).

Linguists divide the Romance languages of France, and especially of Medieval France, into three geographical subgroups: Langues d ' oïl and Langues d ' oc, named after their words for ' yes ', with Franco-Provençal ( Arpitan ) considered transitional.

that is, the sum is taken over all integers d which divide n. This is proved by the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, since the terms that are not powers of primes are equal to 0.

Hoping to keep ownership of the land out of the hands of foreigners in the event of a political coup d ' état, Kamehameha III and 245 chiefs met to divide the Hawaii lands among themselves.

Although there are no division algebras in 3 dimensions, in 1843, the quaternions were defined and provided the now famous 4-dimensional example of an algebra over the real numbers, where one can not only multiply vectors, but also divide.

Most space-partitioning systems use planes ( or, in higher dimensions, hyperplanes ) to divide space: points on one side of the plane form one region, and points on the other side form another.

In many cases it is not possible to divide the process into a finite number of discrete stages, since the state of the stream is transformed in a continuous manner through the process.

One modern approach which attempts to overcome the seemingly impossible divide between deontology and utilitarianism is case-based reasoning, also known as casuistry.

The overall chemical and structural composition is used to divide ambers into five classes.

He reasons that, i ) if we knew the nature of this power, then the mind-body divide would seem totally unmysterious to us ; ii ) if we had immediate knowledge of this mysterious power, then we would be able to intuitively explain why it is that we can control some parts of our bodies ( e. g., our hands or tongues ), and not others ( e. g., the liver or heart ); iii ) we have no immediate knowledge of the powers which allow an impulse of volition to create an action ( e. g., of the " muscles, and nerves, and animal spirits " which are the immediate cause of an action ).

The associative version of this operation is very similar ; simply take the newly computed color value and divide it by its new alpha value, as follows:

Aortic pressure is highest at the aorta and becomes less pulsatile and lower pressure as blood vessels divide into arteries, arterioles, and capillaries such that flow is slow and smooth for gases and nutrient exchange.

Typically, a host is infected via an active invasion by the parasites ( similar to entosis ), which divide to produce sporozoites that enter its cells.

Another king will take ; small is the profit that he does not divide.

The Black Forest is part of the continental divide between the Atlantic Ocean drainage basin ( drained by the Rhine ) and the Black Sea drainage basin ( drained by the Danube ).

The Old Testament is called by the Jews the Tanakh, an acronym formed by combining the initials of the three sections by which the Jews divide the text: the Torah, or Law ( the Pentateuch ), the Nevi ' im, or Prophets, and the Ketuvim, or Writings or Hagiographa ( with vowels added, as Hebrew is written with a consonantal script, TaNaKh ).

For instance, division of real numbers is a partial function, because one can't divide by zero: a / 0 is not defined for any real a.

However, it is also possible to divide the book into three parts rather than four by combining the sections treating David and Solomon, since they both ruled over a combined Judah and Israel, unlike the last section that contains the chronicle of the Davidic kings who ruled the Kingdom of Judah alone.

The Bacillus-specific study with the most diversity covered is by Xu and Cote ' using 16S and the ITS region, where they divide the genus into 10 groups, which includes the nested genera Paenibacillus, Brevibacillus, Geobacillus, Marinibacillus and Virgibacillus.

Practical computer systems divide software systems into three major classes: system software, programming software and application software, although the distinction is arbitrary, and often blurred.

One way to divide various consequentialisms is by the types of consequences that are taken to matter most, that is, which consequences count as good states of affairs.

Even if the wave function is not regarded as real, there is still a divide between those who treat it as definitely and entirely subjective, and those who are non-committal or agnostic about the subject.

The Casiquiare canal – Orinoco River hydrographic divide is a representation of the hydrographic water divide that delineates the separation between the Orinoco Basin and the Amazon Basin.