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In his Algorithms Jeff Erickson discusses and analyses a similar variant, which he calls binary search (a terrible name, if you ask me): For a table of size a power of 2 when searching for key $k$, the idea is to check positions $h(k) \oplus r$, where $\oplus$ is bit-by-bit exclusive or and $r$ is the number of the try. It shares the benefit of quadratic ...

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Amortized analysis is appropriate to analyse a sequence of operations. That is where your "data structure" bent comes into the picture. Your example of the analysis of the Euclidean algorithm is a case in point: You analyse the behaviour of a sequence of non-trivial operations on a very simple data structure (two elements). In any case, Jeff ...

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Now I have another favorite example called "Buy Low, Sell High", all the credit go to this article https://realpython.com/numpy-array-programming/#buy-low-sell-high Given a stock’s price history as a sequence, and assuming that you are only allowed to make one purchase and one sale, what is the maximum profit that can be obtained? For example, ...

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