Divide-and-conquer algorithm

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In computer science, divide and conquer, originally a political maxim, designates an algorithm design paradigm. A divide-and-conquer algorithm recursively breaks down a problem into two or more sub-problems of the same or related type, until these become simple enough to be solved directly.

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