**answer is O(n^2logn)
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we know Merge sort has recurrence form
T(n) = a T(n/b) + O(n)
in case of merge sort
it is
T(n) = 2T(n/2) + O(n) when there are n elements
but here the size of the total is not "n" but "n string of length n"
so a/c to this in every recursion we are breaking the n*n elements in to half
for each recursion as specified by the merge sort algorithm
MERGE-SORT(A,P,R) ///here A is the array P=1st index=1, R=last index in our case it
is n^2
if P<R
then Q = lower_ceiling_fun[(P+R)/2]
MERGE-SORT(A,P,Q)
MERGE-SORT(A,Q+1,R)
MERGE (A,P,Q,R)
MERGE(A,P,Q,R) PROCEDURE ON AN N ELEMENT SUBARRAY TAKES TIME O(N)
BUT IN OUR CASE IT IS N*N
SO A/C to this merge sort recurrence equation for this problem becomes
T(N^2)= 2T[(N^2)/2] + O(N^2)
WE CAN PUT K=N^2 ie.. substitute to solve the recurrence
T(K)= 2T(K/2) + O(K)
a/c to master method condition T(N)=A T(N/B) + O(N^d)
IF A<=B^d then T(N)= O(NlogN)
therefore T(K) = O(KlogK)
substituting K=N^2
we get T(N^2)= O(n*nlogn*n)
ie.. O(2n*nlogn)
.. O(n*nlogn)
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