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  2. Timsort - Wikipedia

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    Timsort is a hybrid, stable sorting algorithm, derived from merge sort and insertion sort, designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data. It was implemented by Tim Peters in 2002 for use in the Python programming language. The algorithm finds subsequences of the data that are already ordered (runs) and uses them to sort the ...

  3. Sorting algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Insertion sort is a simple sorting algorithm that is relatively efficient for small lists and mostly sorted lists, and is often used as part of more sophisticated algorithms. It works by taking elements from the list one by one and inserting them in their correct position into a new sorted list similar to how one puts money in their wallet. [22]

  4. Tim Peters (software engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Tim Peters is a software developer who is known for creating the Timsort hybrid sorting algorithm and for his major contributions to the Python programming language and its original CPython implementation. A pre-1.0 CPython user, he was among the group of early adopters who contributed to the detailed design of the language in its early stages.

  5. Selection sort - Wikipedia

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    A bidirectional variant of selection sort (called double selection sort or sometimes cocktail sort due to its similarity to cocktail shaker sort) finds both the minimum and maximum values in the list in every pass. This requires three comparisons per two items (a pair of elements is compared, then the greater is compared to the maximum and the ...

  6. Category:Sorting algorithms - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Sorting algorithms" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  7. List of algorithms - Wikipedia

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    Insertion sort: determine where the current item belongs in the list of sorted ones, and insert it there; Library sort; Patience sorting; Shell sort: an attempt to improve insertion sort; Tree sort (binary tree sort): build binary tree, then traverse it to create sorted list; Cycle sort: in-place with theoretically optimal number of writes ...

  8. Comparison sort - Wikipedia

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    Sorting a set of unlabelled weights by weight using only a balance scale requires a comparison sort algorithm. A comparison sort is a type of sorting algorithm that only reads the list elements through a single abstract comparison operation (often a "less than or equal to" operator or a three-way comparison) that determines which of two elements should occur first in the final sorted list.

  9. Shellsort - Wikipedia

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    If the list is then k-sorted for some smaller integer k, then the list remains h-sorted. A final sort with h = 1 ensures the list is fully sorted at the end, [6] but a judiciously chosen decreasing sequence of h values leaves very little work for this final pass to do. In simplistic terms, this means if we have an array of 1024 numbers, our ...