Quicksort is an efficient, general-purpose sorting algorithm. Quicksort was developed by British computer scientist Tony Hoare in 1959 and published in...
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the related quicksort sorting algorithm, it was developed by Tony Hoare, and thus is also known as Hoare's selection algorithm. Like quicksort, it is efficient...
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Sorting algorithm (section Quicksort)
exchange, selection, merging, etc. Exchange sorts include bubble sort and quicksort. Selection sorts include cycle sort and heapsort. Whether the algorithm...
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well-implemented quicksort, it has the advantages of very simple implementation and a more favorable worst-case O(n log n) runtime. Most real-world quicksort variants...
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Consequently, quicksort needs O(log2 n) additional space. Although this non-constant space technically takes quicksort out of the in-place category, quicksort and...
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performance and (asymptotically) optimal worst-case performance. It begins with quicksort, it switches to heapsort when the recursion depth exceeds a level based...
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basis of efficient algorithms for many problems, such as sorting (e.g., quicksort, merge sort), multiplying large numbers (e.g., the Karatsuba algorithm)...
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Partial sorting (redirect from Partial quicksort)
partial_quicksort(A, i, j, k) is if i < j then p ← pivot(A, i, j) p ← partition(A, i, j, p) partial_quicksort(A, i, p-1, k) if p < k-1 then partial_quicksort(A...
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implementation) quickSort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a] -- Using list comprehensions quickSort [] = [] -- The empty list is already sorted quickSort (x:xs) = quickSort [a...
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Nested function (section Quicksort)
last) { int pivotIndex = partition(); quickSort(first, pivotIndex - 1); quickSort(pivotIndex + 1, last); } } quickSort(0, size - 1); } The following is an...
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