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TR95-031 | 25th June 1995
Dorit Dor, Uri Zwick

Selecting the median

Improving a long standing result of Sch\"{o}nhage, Paterson
and Pippenger we show that the MEDIAN of a set containing n
elements can always be found using at most 2.95n comparisons.

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