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An early example of a divide-and-conquer algorithm with multiple subproblems is [[Carl Friedrich Gauss|Gauss]]'s 1805 description of what is now called the [[Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm|Cooley–Tukey fast Fourier transform]] (FFT) algorithm,<ref name=Heideman84>Heideman, M. T., D. H. Johnson, and C. S. Burrus, "[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.331.4791&rep=rep1&type=pdf Gauss and the history of the fast Fourier transform]", IEEE ASSP Magazine, 1, (4), 14–21 (1984).</ref> although he did not [[analysis of algorithms|analyze its operation count]] quantitatively, and FFTs did not become widespread until they were rediscovered over a century later.
An early two-subproblem D&C algorithm that was specifically developed for computers and properly analyzed is the [[merge sort]] algorithm, invented by [[John von Neumann]] in 1945.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Knuth | first=Donald | authorlink=Donald Knuth | year=1998 | title=The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3 Sorting and Searching | url=https://archive.org/details/artofcomputerpro03knut | url-access=limited | page=[https://archive.org/details/artofcomputerpro03knut/page/n174 159] | isbn=0-201-89685-0 }}</ref>
Another notable example is the [[Karatsuba algorithm|algorithm]] invented by [[Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba|Anatolii A. Karatsuba]] in 1960<ref>{{cite journal| last=Karatsuba | first=Anatolii A. | authorlink=Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba |author2=Yuri P. Ofman |authorlink2=Yuri Petrovich Ofman | year=1962 | title=Умножение многозначных чисел на автоматах | journal=[[Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR]] | volume=146 | pages=293–294}} Translated in {{cite journal| title=Multiplication of Multidigit Numbers on Automata | journal=Soviet Physics Doklady | volume=7 | year=1963 | pages=595–596 |url={{Google books|MrkOAAAAIAAJ|plainurl=true}} }}</ref> that could multiply two ''n''-digit numbers in <math>O(n^{\log_2 3})</math> operations (in [[Big O notation]]). This algorithm disproved [[Andrey Kolmogorov]]'s 1956 conjecture that <math>\Omega(n^2)</math> operations would be required for that task.
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