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Here methods like random self-reducibility can be used for some specific problems to show that the worst case is no harder than the average case, or, equivalently, that the average case is no easier than the worst case. On the other hand, some data structures like hash tables have very poor worst-case behaviors, but a well written hash table of ...
The best case input is an array that is already sorted. In this case insertion sort has a linear running time (i.e., O(n)). During each iteration, the first remaining element of the input is only compared with the right-most element of the sorted subsection of the array. The simplest worst case input is an array sorted in reverse order.
Best, worst and average case behavior in terms of the size of the list. For typical serial sorting algorithms, good behavior is O(n log n), with parallel sort in O(log 2 n), and bad behavior is O(n 2). Ideal behavior for a serial sort is O(n), but this is not possible in the average case.
I propose the three articles Best, worst and average case, Worst-case complexity and Average-case complexity be merged to make one informative and complete article. --Robin 16:13, 11 August 2009 (UTC) I'm removing the merge tag.
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Amortized analysis requires knowledge of which series of operations are possible. This is most commonly the case with data structures, which have state that persists between operations. The basic idea is that a worst-case operation can alter the state in such a way that the worst case cannot occur again for a long time, thus "amortizing" its cost.
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