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MASTER THEOREM

Let a ≥ 1 and b > 1 be constants, let f(n) be a function, and let T(n) be defined on the nonnegative integers by the recurrence

T(n) = aT(n/b) + f(n),

where we interpret n/b to mean either ⌊n/b⌋ or ⌈n/b⌉. Then T(n) can be bounded asymptotically as follows.