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  2. Timsort - Wikipedia

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    Timsort is a hybrid, stable sorting algorithm, derived from merge sort and insertion sort, designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data. It was implemented by Tim Peters in 2002 for use in the Python programming language. The algorithm finds subsequences of the data that are already ordered (runs) and uses them to sort the ...

  3. Pigeonhole sort - Wikipedia

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    The pigeonhole array is then iterated over in order, and the elements are moved back to the original list. The difference between pigeonhole sort and counting sort is that in counting sort, the auxiliary array does not contain lists of input elements, only counts: 3: 1; 4: 0; 5: 2; 6: 0; 7: 0; 8: 1

  4. Sorting algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Shuffling can also be implemented by a sorting algorithm, namely by a random sort: assigning a random number to each element of the list and then sorting based on the random numbers. This is generally not done in practice, however, and there is a well-known simple and efficient algorithm for shuffling: the Fisher–Yates shuffle .

  5. Bead sort - Wikipedia

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    def beadsort (input_list): """Bead sort.""" return_list = [] # Initialize a 'transposed list' to contain as many elements as # the maximum value of the input -- in effect, taking the 'tallest' # column of input beads and laying it out flat transposed_list = [0] * max (input_list) for num in input_list: # For each element (each 'column of beads ...

  6. Counting sort - Wikipedia

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    It is often used as a subroutine in radix sort, another sorting algorithm, which can handle larger keys more efficiently. [1] [2] [3] Counting sort is not a comparison sort; it uses key values as indexes into an array and the Ω(n log n) lower bound for comparison sorting will not apply. [1]

  7. Block sort - Wikipedia

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    Block sort, or block merge sort, is a sorting algorithm combining at least two merge operations with an insertion sort to arrive at O(n log n) (see Big O notation) in-place stable sorting time. It gets its name from the observation that merging two sorted lists, A and B , is equivalent to breaking A into evenly sized blocks , inserting each A ...

  8. Bogosort - Wikipedia

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    A sorting algorithm that only works if the list is already in order, otherwise, the conditions of miracle sort are applied. Divine sort A sorting algorithm that takes a list and decides that because there is such a low probability that the list randomly occurred in its current permutation (a probability of 1/n!, where n is the number of ...

  9. Cocktail shaker sort - Wikipedia

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    An example of a list that proves this point is the list (2,3,4,5,1), which would only need to go through one pass of cocktail sort to become sorted, but if using an ascending bubble sort would take four passes. However one cocktail sort pass should be counted as two bubble sort passes.