Divide and conquer

Divide an conquer can mean either:

• In politics and sociology, divide and conquer is a strategy of gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.
• In computer science, divide and conquer is an algorithm design paradigm that works by recursively breaking down a problem into two or more sub-problems of the same (or related) type.

This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.