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Data Structures and Algorithms
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In the worst case the i in Equation 
is always zero.
In this case,
we solve the recurrence using repeated substitution like this:
The worst case occurs when the two subsequences are as unbalanced as they can be--one sequence has all the remaining elements and the other has none.
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