Insertion sort
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Insertion sort is a simple sorting algorithm, a comparison sort in which the sorted array (or list) is built one entry at a time. It is much less efficient on large lists than more advanced algorithms such as quicksort, heapsort, or merge sort. However, insertion sort provides several advantages: simple implementation, efficient for (quite) small data sets, adaptive, i.e. efficient for data sets that are already substantially sorted: the time complexity is O(n + d), where d is the number of inversions, more efficient in practice than most other simple quadratic (i.e. O(n2)) algorithms such as selection sort or bubble sort: the average running time is n2/4[citation needed], and the running time is linear in the best case, stable, i.e....
ISBN: 978-6-1307-6786-0
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Дата выхода: июль 2011