Mergesort is one of the best-known examples of the unility of the divide-and-conquer paradigm for efficent algorithm design. It is as good as Quicksort.
#include<cstdio> #include<iostream> using namespace std; void Merge( int a[], int first, int mid, int last ) { int b[1000], e; int i = first; int j = mid + 1; int len = last - first + 1; for( e = 0; e < len; e++ ) { if( i == mid + 1 ) b[e] = a[j++]; else if( j == last +1 ) b[e] = a[i++]; else if( a[i] < a[j] ) b[e] = a[i++]; else b[e] = a[j++]; } for( int k = 0; k < len; k++ ) { a[first + k] = b[k]; } } void Mergesort( int a[], int first, int last ) { int mid = ( first + last ) / 2; if( first < last ) { Mergesort( a, first, mid ); Mergesort( a, mid + 1, last ); Merge( a, first, mid, last); } } int main() { int n; while( cin >> n ) { int a[1000]; for( int i = 0; i < n; i++ ) { cin >> a[i]; } Mergesort( a, 0, n - 1 ); for( int i = 0; i < n; i++) { cout << a[i] << ' '; } cout << endl; } return 0; }