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Recursively divide the list into sublists of (roughly) equal length, until each sublist contains only one element, or in the case of iterative (bottom up) merge sort, consider a list of n elements as n sub-lists of size 1. A list containing a single element is, by definition, sorted.
Divide-and-conquer approach to sort the list (38, 27, 43, 3, 9, 82, 10) in increasing order. Upper half: splitting into sublists; mid: a one-element list is trivially sorted; lower half: composing sorted sublists. The divide-and-conquer paradigm is often used to find an optimal solution of a problem.
Merge two-record sublists from C and D into four-record sublists; writing these alternately to A and B. Merge four-record sublists from A and B into eight-record sublists; writing these alternately to C and D; Repeat until you have one list containing all the data, sorted—in log 2 (n) passes.
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]
The algorithm divides the input list into two parts: a sorted sublist of items which is built up from left to right at the front (left) of the list and a sublist of the remaining unsorted items that occupy the rest of the list. Initially, the sorted sublist is empty and the unsorted sublist is the entire input list.
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Split into two equal sublists and . Recursively sort A + A {\displaystyle A+A} and B + B {\displaystyle B+B} Infer the ordering on A + B {\displaystyle A+B} using only the comparisons from a single merge step as above.
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