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Quicksort is an efficient, general-purpose
sorting algorithm.
Quicksort was
developed by
British computer scientist Tony ****e in 1959 and
published in...
- exchange, selection, merging, etc.
Exchange sorts include bubble sort and
quicksort.
Selection sorts include cycle sort and heapsort.
Whether the algorithm...
- the
related quicksort sorting algorithm, it was
developed by Tony ****e, and thus is also
known as ****e's
selection algorithm. Like
quicksort, it is efficient...
- 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...
- sort, but it is
equivalent to
quicksort as both
recursively partition the
elements based on a pivot, and
since quicksort is in-place and has
lower overhead...
-
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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performance and (asymptotically)
optimal worst-case performance. It
begins with
quicksort, it
switches to
heapsort when the
recursion depth exceeds a
level based...
- the
expected running time is
finite (Las
Vegas algorithms, for
example Quicksort), and
algorithms which have a
chance of
producing an
incorrect result...
- used
primarily as an
educational tool. More
efficient algorithms such as
quicksort, timsort, or
merge sort are used by the
sorting libraries built into po****r...
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distinction in
computer science, in 1980. ****e
developed the
sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959–1960. He
developed ****e logic, an
axiomatic basis for verifying...
