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  2. Merge sort - Wikipedia

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    In the worst case, merge sort uses approximately 39% fewer comparisons than quicksort does in its average case, and in terms of moves, merge sort's worst case complexity is O(n log n) - the same complexity as quicksort's best case. [7] Merge sort is more efficient than quicksort for some types of lists if the data to be sorted can only be ...

  3. Merge-insertion sort - Wikipedia

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    Merge-insertion sort also performs fewer comparisons than the sorting numbers, which count the comparisons made by binary insertion sort or merge sort in the worst case. The sorting numbers fluctuate between n log 2 ⁡ n − 0.915 n {\displaystyle n\log _{2}n-0.915n} and n log 2 ⁡ n − n {\displaystyle n\log _{2}n-n} , with the same leading ...

  4. Best, worst and average case - Wikipedia

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    But given a worst-case input, its performance degrades to O(n 2). Also, when implemented with the "shortest first" policy, the worst-case space complexity is instead bounded by O(log(n)). Heapsort has O(n) time when all elements are the same. Heapify takes O(n) time and then removing elements from the heap is O(1) time for each of the n elements.

  5. Sorting algorithm - Wikipedia

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    One implementation can be described as arranging the data sequence in a two-dimensional array and then sorting the columns of the array using insertion sort. The worst-case time complexity of Shellsort is an open problem and depends on the gap sequence used, with known complexities ranging from O(n 2) to O(n 4/3) and Θ(n log 2 n).

  6. Merge algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Repeatedly merge sublists to create a new sorted sublist until the single list contains all elements. The single list is the sorted list. The merge algorithm is used repeatedly in the merge sort algorithm. An example merge sort is given in the illustration. It starts with an unsorted array of 7 integers. The array is divided into 7 partitions ...

  7. Splaysort - Wikipedia

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    Analysis [ edit ] Based on the amortized analysis of splay trees, the worst case running time of splaysort, on an input with n data items, is O ( n log n ), matching the time bounds for efficient non-adaptive algorithms such as quicksort , heap sort , and merge sort .

  8. Sort-merge join - Wikipedia

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    The sort-merge join (also known as merge join) is a join algorithm and is used in the implementation of a relational database management system. The basic problem of a join algorithm is to find, for each distinct value of the join attribute, the set of tuples in each relation which display that value.

  9. Bogosort - Wikipedia

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    In the worst case, the number of comparisons and swaps are both unbounded, for the same reason that a tossed coin might turn up heads any number of times in a row. The best case occurs if the list as given is already sorted; in this case the expected number of comparisons is n − 1 , and no swaps at all are carried out.