Intuitive explanation for why QuickSort is n log n?

Each partitioning operation takes O(n) operations (one pass on the array). In average, each partitioning divides the array to two parts (which sums up to log n operations). In total we have O(n * log n) operations.

I.e. in average log n partitioning operations and each partitioning takes O(n) operations.

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