Merge Sort

Learn about merge sort, one of the key sorting algorithms used in real-life projects.

Merge sort

Merge sort is a recursive divide-and-conquer algorithm that essentially divides a given list into two halves, sorts those halves, and merges them in order. The base case is to merge two lists of size 1 so, eventually, single elements are merged in order; the merge part is where most of the heavy lifting happens.

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