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  2. Bubble sort - Wikipedia

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    Bubble sort, sometimes referred to as sinking sort, is a simple sorting algorithm that repeatedly steps through the input list element by element, comparing the current element with the one after it, swapping their values if needed. These passes through the list are repeated until no swaps have to be performed during a pass, meaning that the ...

  3. Sorting algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Merge sort. In computer science, a sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list into an order.The most frequently used orders are numerical order and lexicographical order, and either ascending or descending.

  4. Timsort - Wikipedia

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    Timsort is a stable sorting algorithm (order of elements with same key is kept) and strives to perform balanced merges (a merge thus merges runs of similar sizes). In order to achieve sorting stability, only consecutive runs are merged. Between two non-consecutive runs, there can be an element with the same key inside the runs.

  5. Quicksort - Wikipedia

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    To sort an array of n ... to warrant implementation in Java 7, as the standard algorithm to sort arrays of ... write buffer in descending order based comparison ...

  6. Merge sort - Wikipedia

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    In Java, the Arrays.sort() methods use merge sort or a tuned quicksort depending on the datatypes and for implementation efficiency switch to insertion sort when fewer than seven array elements are being sorted. [29] The Linux kernel uses merge sort for its linked lists. [30]

  7. Heapsort - Wikipedia

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    The heapsort algorithm can be divided into two phases: heap construction, and heap extraction. The heap is an implicit data structure which takes no space beyond the array of objects to be sorted; the array is interpreted as a complete binary tree where each array element is a node and each node's parent and child links are defined by simple arithmetic on the array indexes.

  8. Sorting - Wikipedia

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    Repeat until array is sorted. Insertion sort: Scan successive elements for an out-of-order item, then insert the item in the proper place. Selection sort: Find the smallest (or biggest) element in the array, and put it in the proper place. Swap it with the value in the first position. Repeat until array is sorted. Quick sort: Partition the ...

  9. 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