| 21. | When people manually sort cards in a bridge hand, most use a method that is similar to insertion sort.
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| 22. | Bubble sort and insertion sort can be interpreted as particular instances of this procedure to put a sequence into order.
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| 23. | Compared to basic insertion sort, the drawback of library sort is that it requires extra space for the gaps.
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| 24. | Experimental results such as those of Astrachan have also shown that insertion sort performs considerably better even on random lists.
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| 25. | As long as the data is uniformly distributed, class sizes will be consistent and insertion sort will be computationally efficient.
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| 26. | A variant of this scheme runs quicksort with a constant cutoff, then runs a single insertion sort on the final array:
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| 27. | On the other hand, insertion sort considers one input element per iteration and produces a partial solution without considering future elements.
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| 28. | With either algorithm, one would usually revert to something like insertion sort when the number of sorted items gets small enough.
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| 29. | If you use insertion sort, your complexity is O ( n 2 ), not O ( n log n ).
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| 30. | Other algorithms, such as library sort, a variant of insertion sort that leaves spaces, are also practical for physical use.
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