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Discussion on: Merge Sort Quick Reference

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Theofanis Despoudis

The merge part is useful in cases where you want to merge two sorted arrays, or find the kth element of two sorted arrays.

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

Yes, the merge part is useful as an independent algorithm. Knowing how these algorithms work are thus useful for constructing new algorithms.