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sort simple sort In-place sort quicksort balanced quicksort introspective sort insertion sort selection sort diminishing increment sort shell sort heapsort adaptive heap sort introspective sort adaptive sort adaptive heap sort distribution sort bin sort range sort counting sort histogram sort merge sort	adaptive sort Also defined at: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/adaptivesort.html. Inherits from sort A sorting algorithm that can take advantage of existing order in the input, reducing its requirements for computational resources as a function of the disorder in the input. [National Institute of Standards and Technology] See also adaptive sort variants: adaptive heap sort

Author: Nikita Ogievetsky, © Cogitech, Inc. 2002