Like many sorting algorithms, Merge Sort is a Divide and Conquer algorithm which divides the array of integers into smaller arrays, recursively sorts them, and then merges the two sorted halves into a ...

The merge sort is popular for two reasons: 1) its worst case is O(n log n), and 2) it has a property known as stable. Like all sorting algorithms, it has downsides. Here the downside requiring O(n) ...