Exploring the K-Way Merge Algorithm: Merging Multiple Sorted Lists
Imagine you're in the market for a new car and you've gathered price quotes from various dealerships. Each dealership provides you with a list of car prices, sorted from lowest to highest. Wouldn't it be convenient to have a single list, consolidating all these prices in sorted order, to make your decision-making process easier?
Enter the K-Way Merge Algorithm. This algorithm excels in merging K
number of sorted lists into one sorted list, where K
can be any integer.
To illustrate, let's consider you have received sorted lists of car prices from three different companies:
1cars_1 = [20000, 30000]
2cars_2 = [43000, 70000]
3cars_3 = [30000, 75000, 80000]
Stay tuned as we delve into how to merge these sorted lists into one comprehensive, sorted list of all available car prices.
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