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CDQ divide and conquer is an offline divide-and-conquer pattern that partitions items in one ordered dimension, solves each half recursively and counts or applies contributions from the left half to the right during a merge. For three-dimensional dominance counting, first order by one coordinate, then merge by a second while a Fenwick tree aggregates the third. The cross-half pass accounts for interactions not handled inside either recursive call. Tie conventions must match strict or non-strict comparisons, and temporary updates must be removed or isolated before unrelated subproblems. A common implementation takes $O(n{\log }^{2}n)$ time after coordinate compression.