2.47

Change the assumptions of the proof.

The paper mentioned is "S. Skiena. Encroaching lists as a measure of presortedness. BIT, 28:775-784, 1988."

Other solution :

[math]\displaystyle{ O(nlog(\sqrtn)) }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ O(nlog(n)) }[/math] belongs to same class of function with respect to Big O notation. There is no difference between them other than a constant factor.

[math]\displaystyle{ \lim_{x\to\infty} (blog(/sqrtn)) / (nlog(n)) }[/math] = [math]\displaystyle{ \lim_{x\to\infty} 1/2*(nlog(n))/(nlog(n)) }[/math] = [math]\displaystyle{ 1/2 }[/math]

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