1.5, due September 15

1.  (Difficult)  Answer the question "Did you carefully read the entire assignment, and what was the most difficult part of the material for you?"  Note that "nothing" is not an acceptable answer. If nothing challenges you, then you should think about the material at a deeper level and generate some honest questions.



Yes, I did the reading. The most difficult part of this reading  was trying to understand the master theorem, or rather how it works. Plugging in values, I could understand what it was saying, but I didn't understand where the values for those variables were coming from.

2.  (Reflective)  Write something reflective about the reading. This could be the answer to the question "What was the most interesting part of the material?" or "How does this material connect to something else you have learned in mathematics?" or "How is this material useful/relevant to your intellectual or career interests?"

I think that it's incredible that a 'master formula' has been come up with for recursive algorithms. Truly, it's incredible that I have taken many CS classes, but in this last week or so,  I have learned, or at least understood, a lot more that in all of my time in those classes about big O and little o of algorithms and such.