Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Consider the following recursive method in Java that determines if
a string is a palindrome (i.e., reads the same forward or backwards) or not:

Public boolean isPalindrome ( String str ){
If( str.length() ≤ 1 )
return true;
else
return ( str.charAt (0) == str.charAt( str.length() – 1 ) &&
isPalindrome( str.substring(1..str.length() - 1)));
} // end of isPalindrome


a. Explain convincingly why the recurrence below for f(n), where n is the length of the string parameter str, is a correct expression for the number of primitive operations
required by a call isPalindrome.
t(0) = Θ(1)
t(1) = Θ(1)
t(?) = t(? − 2) + Θ(1)
b. Show that t(n) = Θ(n), solves the recurrence for t(n) in (a) above.

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