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2844:Stooge sort
2686:Bucket sort
2638:Merge sorts
2510:Bubble sort
2454:Inplacement
2444:Total order
994:binary tree
974:linked list
871:While some
365:bubble sort
335:Jon Bentley
179:performance
109:performance
61:performance
2869:Categories
2790:Spreadsort
2752:Samplesort
2716:Radix sort
2645:Merge sort
2583:Cycle sort
2568:Smoothsort
2530:Gnome sort
2372:: Core war
2355:2009-10-21
2229:cs/0407003
1999:Algorithms
1979:1047840657
1935:References
967:merge sort
952:merge sort
897:Shell sort
893:D.L. Shell
679:A ← x
671:j >= 0
532:i ← i + 1
507:zero-based
503:Pseudocode
327:merge sort
224:Worst-case
58:Worst-case
2785:Introsort
2721:Flashsort
2691:Burstsort
2681:Bead sort
2619:Tree sort
2614:Splaysort
2609:Shellsort
2540:Quicksort
2525:Comb sort
2459:Stability
1084:SortList1
1039:skip list
998:heap sort
881:mergesort
877:quicksort
742:quicksort
738:quicksort
677:end while
626:end while
622:end while
616:j > 0
544:invariant
534:end while
530:end while
520:j > 0
498:inserted.
418:Algorithm
343:optimized
319:quicksort
288:auxiliary
106:Best-case
2854:Bogosort
2849:Slowsort
2563:Heapsort
2254:14701669
2109:34066017
1995:(1983).
1590:SortList
903:) and O(
888:Variants
875:such as
661:function
584:fails).
578:A > A
460:becomes
433:iterates
398:In-place
370:Adaptive
323:heapsort
2780:Timsort
2333:at the
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1923:pSorted
1905:ppTrail
1896:ppTrail
1863:ppTrail
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1489:// done
1477:current
1441:current
1402:current
1315:current
1291:current
1258:current
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988:(e.g.,
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597:(where
572:, when
293:Optimal
259:total,
176:Average
2427:Theory
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1090:struct
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1043:O(log
1034:time.
862:EEPROM
681:end if
608:i ← 1
512:i ← 1
495:Insert
487:Insert
412:bridge
404:Online
392:Stable
2804:Other
2449:Lists
2270:Euler
2250:S2CID
2224:arXiv
2105:S2CID
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