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Algorithms
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Algorithms

by Sushil C. Dimri, Abhay Saxena, Bhuvan Unhelkar, Akshay Kumar
June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
189 pages
6h 33m
English
De Gruyter
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By combining binary search and insertion sort, a sorting method for small input size

Bhawnesh Kumar
Aditya Bhatt
Neeraj Panwar

Abstract

Insertion sort, one of the popular sorting methods having average time complexity O(n2), is based on the decrease and conquer strategy. We insert elements one by one in the sorted part and decrease the size of the unsorted portion, instead of a simple comparison method for insertion of elements in the sorted portion if we apply the binary search approach to locate the appropriate position for the inserting element in the sorted part. This will reduce the number of key comparisons; the only problem with this approach is to shift the elements one place to its right which are greater than A[i]. But the ...

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ISBN: 9783111229638