Merge Sort

public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Random r = new Random();        
        int[] a = new int[]{r.nextInt(100), r.nextInt(100), r.nextInt(100),r.nextInt(100),r.nextInt(100),r.nextInt(100),r.nextInt(100),r.nextInt(100),r.nextInt(100),r.nextInt(100),r.nextInt(100)};
        int[] aCopy1 = Arrays.copyOf(a, a.length);
        int[] aCopy2 = Arrays.copyOf(a, a.length);
        mergeSort1(aCopy1);
        mergeSort2(aCopy2);
        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(a));
        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(aCopy1));        
        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(aCopy2));        
    }
    
    private static void mergeSort1(int[] a)
    {                
        TopDownSplitMerge(a, 0, a.length, new int[a.length]);
    }
    
    //[begin,end)
    private static void TopDownSplitMerge(int[] a, int iBegin, int iEnd, int[] helper)
    {
        if(iEnd-iBegin<2)
            return;
        int iMid = (iBegin + iEnd)/2;
        TopDownSplitMerge(a, iBegin, iMid, helper);
        TopDownSplitMerge(a, iMid, iEnd, helper);
        
        //merge to helper array
        //left half a[iBegin:iMid-1]
        //right half a[iMid:iEnd-1]
        int iLeft = iBegin;
        int iRight = iMid;
        for(int j=iBegin;j<iEnd;++j)
        {
            if(iLeft<iMid && (iRight>=iEnd || a[iLeft]<a[iRight]))
            {
                helper[j] = a[iLeft];
                ++iLeft;
            }
            else
            {
                helper[j] = a[iRight];
                ++iRight;
            }
        }
        
        //copy values from helper array to original array.
        for(int j = iBegin;j<iEnd;++j)
        {
            a[j] = helper[j];
        }
    }
    
    private static void mergeSort2(int[] a)
    {                
        BottomUpMerge(a, a.length, new int[a.length]);
    }
    
    // Make successively longer sorted runs of length 2, 4, 8, 16... until whole array is sorted.
    private static void BottomUpMerge(int[] a, int length, int[] helper)
    {
        for(int width = 1;width<length;width *=2)
        {
            for(int i = 0;i<length;i+=width*2)
            {
                //for each iteration, merge the range [i, i+2*width-1]
                //left half: a[i: i+width-1]
                //right half:a[i+width:i+2*width-1]
                int iLeft = i;
                int iMid = Math.min(i+width, length);
                int iRight = iMid;
                int iEnd = Math.min(i+2*width, length);
                for(int j = iLeft; j<iEnd; ++j)
                {
                    if(iLeft<iMid && (iRight>=iEnd || a[iLeft]<a[iRight]))
                    {
                        helper[j] = a[iLeft];
                        ++iLeft;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        helper[j] = a[iRight];
                        ++iRight;
                    }
                }
            }
            
            //copy values from helper array to original array.
            for(int j = 0;j<length;++j)
            {
                a[j] = helper[j];
            }
        }
    }