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TR95-057 | 24th November 1995
Dima Grigoriev, Marek Karpinski, A. C. Yao

An Exponential Lower Bound on the Size of Algebraic Decision Trees for MAX

We prove an exponential lower bound on the size of any
fixed-degree algebraic decision tree for solving MAX, the
problem of finding the maximum of $n$ real numbers. This
complements the $n-1$ lower bound of Rabin \cite{R72} on
the depth of ... more >>>




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