These algorithms are used as subroutines in various sorting algorithms, most famously merge sort. The merge algorithm plays a critical role in the merge sort...
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science, merge sort (also commonly spelled as mergesort and as merge-sort) is an efficient, general-purpose, and comparison-based sorting algorithm. Most...
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k-way merge algorithms or multiway merges are a specific type of sequence merge algorithms that specialize in taking in k sorted lists and merging them...
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is important for optimizing the efficiency of other algorithms (such as search and merge algorithms) that require input data to be in sorted lists. Sorting...
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Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm, also known as the Douglas–Peucker algorithm and iterative end-point fit algorithm, is an algorithm that decimates a curve...
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In computer science, merge-insertion sort or the Ford–Johnson algorithm is a comparison sorting algorithm published in 1959 by L. R. Ford Jr. and Selmer...
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The package-merge algorithm is an O(nL)-time algorithm for finding an optimal length-limited Huffman code for a given distribution on a given alphabet...
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Timsort (section Merge criteria)
Timsort is a hybrid, stable sorting algorithm, derived from merge sort and insertion sort, designed to perform well on many kinds of real-world data....
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The sort-merge join (also known as merge join) is a join algorithm and is used in the implementation of a relational database management system. The basic...
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Disjoint-set data structure (redirect from Merge-Find-Set)
disjoint-set data structure, also called a union–find data structure or merge–find set, is a data structure that stores a collection of disjoint (non-overlapping)...
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merge algorithms include three-way merge, recursive three-way merge, fuzzy patch application, weave merge, and patch commutation. A three-way merge is...
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and then strictly decreasing or vice versa k-way merge algorithm Simple merge algorithm Union (merge, with elements on the output not repeated) Fisher–Yates...
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External sorting (redirect from External merge)
a temporary file. In the merge phase, the sorted subfiles are combined into a single larger file. External sorting algorithms can be analyzed in the external...
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Block sort (redirect from Block merge sort)
Block sort, or block merge sort, is a sorting algorithm combining at least two merge operations with an insertion sort to arrive at O(n log n) (see Big...
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under UNIX Merge (SQL), a statement in SQL Merge algorithm, an algorithm for combining two or more sorted lists into a single sorted one Mail merge, the production...
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matrix representation adversary algorithm algorithm BSTW algorithm FGK algorithmic efficiency algorithmically solvable algorithm V all pairs shortest path alphabet...
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Shadow heap (section Shadow merge)
amortized sense. More specifically, shadow heaps make use of the shadow merge algorithm to achieve insertion in O(f(n)) amortized time and deletion in O((log...
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Data merge may refer to: Mail merge Data integration Merge algorithm Merge (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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Git (section Merging strategies)
implements several merging strategies; a non-default strategy can be selected at merge time: resolve: the traditional three-way merge algorithm. recursive: This...
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HyperLogLog (redirect from HyperLogLog algorithm)
HyperLogLog is an algorithm for the count-distinct problem, approximating the number of distinct elements in a multiset. Calculating the exact cardinality...
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itself, and does not require a merge step. An example of a prune and search algorithm is the binary search algorithm. Search and enumeration Many problems...
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Huffman coding (redirect from Huffman Compression algorithm)
constant. The package-merge algorithm solves this problem with a simple greedy approach very similar to that used by Huffman's algorithm. Its time complexity...
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efficient algorithms for many problems, such as sorting (e.g., quicksort, merge sort), multiplying large numbers (e.g., the Karatsuba algorithm), finding...
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Powersort (category Divide-and-conquer algorithms)
list-sorting algorithm in CPython and is also used in PyPy and AssemblyScript. Powersort belongs to the family of merge sort algorithms. More specifically...
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Bucket sort (category Sorting algorithms)
Conventionally, insertion sort is used, but other algorithms could be used as well, such as selection sort or merge sort. Using bucketSort itself as nextSort...
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introduced a new merge algorithm called BLOCKSET in DFSORT the successor to OS/360 Sort/Merge. Of historical note, the BLOCKSET algorithm was invented by...
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Time complexity (redirect from Polynomial-time algorithm)
takes to run an algorithm. Time complexity is commonly estimated by counting the number of elementary operations performed by the algorithm, supposing that...
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use of a different algorithm at the end of the recursion. A highly optimized hybrid sorting algorithm is Timsort, which combines merge sort, insertion sort...
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A polyphase merge sort is a variation of a bottom-up merge sort that sorts a list using an initial uneven distribution of sub-lists (runs), primarily used...
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Diff3 (section Merging from a common ancestor)
utilities. "Diff3" has also become a generic name for the three-way-merge algorithm, specifically one based on reconciling two different diffs stemming...
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