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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

insertion sort [linear insertion sort] Also defined at: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/insertsrt.html. Inherits from In-place sort Sort by repeatedly taking the next item and inserting it into the final data structure in its proper order with respect to items already inserted. Run time is O(n2) because of moves. [National Institute of Standards and Technology] Demonstrations: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/people/mukundan/dsal/ISort.html Implementations and sample code: http://gams.nist.gov/serve.cgi/Module/TOMS/505/8547 [FORTRAN] http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/harrison/Java/InsertionSortAlgorithm.java [Java]

Author: Nikita Ogievetsky, © Cogitech, Inc. 2002