QuickSelect Algorithm Understanding
问题 I've been poring over various tutorials and articles that discuss quicksort and quickselect, however my understanding of them is still shaky. Given this code structure, I need to be able to grasp and explain how quickselect works. // return the kth smallest item int quickSelect(int items[], int first, int last, int k) { int pivot = partition(items, first, last); if (k < pivot-first) { return quickSelect(items, first, pivot, k); } else if (k > pivot) { return quickSelect(items, pivot+1, last,