1. Sorting Recap & More about Sorting
[G], [C], and [L] 

2. Bubble sort
Details in [L] page 100

3. Bubble sort
Details in [L] page 101

4. Selection sort
Details in [L] page 99

5. Selection sort
Details in [L] page 99

6. Insertion sort
Details in [L] page 134

7. Insertion sort
Details in [L] page 135

8. New: Shell’s sort
Divide the array into smaller subarrays that are “gap” apart
Sort subarrays
Decrease “gap”
Sort again [[ “easier” sort ]]

9. Shell Sort: A Better Insertion Sort
A Shell sort is a type of insertion sort, but with O(n3/2) or better performance than the O(n2) sorts
It is named after its discoverer, Donald Shell
Shell’s sort can be thought of as a divide-and- conquer approach to insertion sort
Instead of sorting the entire array, Shell sort sorts many smaller subarrays using insertion sort before sorting the entire array

10. Subarrays gap = 5

11. Subarrays gap = 2

12. Trace of Shell Sort gap value 7 40 35 80 75 60 90 70 55 85 34 45 57 65
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62 57
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]

13. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62 57
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 1

14. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62 57
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 2

15. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62 57
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 3

16. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62 57
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 4

17. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62 57
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 5

18. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62 57
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 6

19. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62 57
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 7

20. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7
Sort subarray 1 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62 57
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 1

21. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7
Sort subarray 1 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 57 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 1

22. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7
Sort subarray 2 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 57 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 2

23. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7
Sort subarray 3 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 57 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 3

24. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7
Sort subarray 4 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 57 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 4

25. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7
Sort subarray 5 40 35 80 75 60
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 57 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 34 45 62
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 5

26. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7
Sort subarray 5 40 35 80 75 34
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 57 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 60 45 62
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 5

27. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7
Sort subarray 6 40 35 80 75 34
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 90 70 57 55
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 60 45 62
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 6

28. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7
Sort subarray 6 40 35 80 75 34
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 45 70 57 55 90
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 60 62
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 6

29. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7
Sort subarray 7 40 35 80 75 34
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 45 70 57 55 90
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 60 62
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 7

30. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7
Sort subarray 7 40 35 80 75 34
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 45 62 57 55 90
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 60 70
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 7

31. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 7
Sort on smaller gap value next 40 35 80 75 34
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 45 62 57 55 90
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 60 70
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]

32. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort on smaller gap value 40 35 80 75 34
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 45 62 57 55 90
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 60 70
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]

33. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort subarray 1 40 35 80 75 34
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 45 62 57 55 90
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 60 70
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 1

34. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort subarray 1 40 35 80 62 34
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 45 75 57 55 90
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 60 70
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14] 65
[15]
subarray 1

35. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort subarray 1 40 35 80 62 34
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 45 65 57 55 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 60 90 70
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
subarray 1

36. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort subarray 2 40 35 80 62 34
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 45 65 57 55 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 60 90 70
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
subarray 2

37. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort subarray 2 40 34 80 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 45 65 57 55 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 85 60 90 70
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
subarray 2

38. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort subarray 2 40 34 80 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 45 65 57 55 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 60 90 85
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
subarray 2

39. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort subarray 3 40 34 80 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 45 65 57 55 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 60 90 85
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
subarray 3

40. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort subarray 3 40 34 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 80 65 57 55 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 60 90 85
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
subarray 3

41. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort subarray 3 40 34 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 80 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 60 90 85
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
subarray 3

42. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort subarray 3 40 34 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 80 90 85
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
subarray 3

43. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort subarray 3 40 34 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
subarray 3

44. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 3
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 40 34 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

45. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 40 34 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

46. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 40 34 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

47. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 40 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

48. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 40 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

49. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 40 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

50. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 40 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

51. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 40 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

52. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 40 45 62 35
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

53. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 62
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

54. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 62
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 55 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

55. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 62 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

56. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 62 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

57. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 62 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

58. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 62 65 57 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

59. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 62 65 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

60. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 62 65 60 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

61. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

62. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

63. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

64. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 75
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 70 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

65. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 70
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 75 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

66. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 70
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 75 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

67. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 70
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 75 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

68. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 70
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 75 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

69. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 70
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 75 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

70. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 70
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 75 90 85 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

71. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 70
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 75 85 90 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

72. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 70
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 75 85 90 80
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

73. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 70
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 75 85 80 90
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

74. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 70
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 75 85 80 90
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

75. Trace of Shell Sort (cont.)
gap value 1
Sort on gap value of 1 (a regular insertion sort) 34 35 40 45 55
[0]
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] 57 60 62 65 70
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] 75 85 80 90
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]

76. Shell Sort Algorithm Shell Sort Algorithm
Set the initial value of gap to n / 2
while gap > 0
3. for each array element from position gap to the last element
Insert this element where it belongs in its subarray.
5. if gap is 2, set it to 1
6. else gap = gap / 2.2. // chosen by experimentation

77. Analysis of Shell Sort
Because the behavior of insertion sort is closer to O(n) than O(n2) when an array is nearly sorted, presorting speeds up later sorting
This is critical when sorting large arrays where the O(n2) performance becomes significant

78. Analysis of Shell Sort (cont.)
A general analysis of Shell sort is an open research problem in computer science
Performance depends on how the decreasing sequence of values for gap is chosen
If successive powers of 2 are used for gap, performance is O(n2)
If successive values for gap are based on Hibbard's sequence,
2k – 1 (i.e. 31, 15, 7, 3, 1)
it can be proven that the performance is O(n3/2)
Other sequences give similar or better performance

79. Analysis of Shell Sort (cont.)

80. Example Shell Sort void shell_sort(int A[], int size) {
int i, j, incrmnt, temp;
incrmnt = size / 2;
while (incrmnt > 0) {
for (i=incrmnt; i < size; i++) {
j = i;
temp = A[i];
while ((j >= incrmnt) && (A[j-incrmnt] > temp)) {
A[j] = A[j - incrmnt];
j = j - incrmnt; }
A[j] = temp;
} incrmnt /= 2;

81. Merge Sort
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Merge Sort
7 2  
7  2  2 7
9  4  4 9
7  7
2  2
9  9
4  4

82. Merge Sort
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Divide-and-Conquer
Divide-and conquer is a general algorithm design paradigm:
Divide: divide the input data S in two disjoint subsets S1 and S2
Recur: solve the subproblems associated with S1 and S2
Conquer: combine the solutions for S1 and S2 into a solution for S
The base case for the recursion are subproblems of size 0 or 1
Merge-sort is a sorting algorithm based on the divide-and-conquer paradigm
Like heap-sort
It uses a comparator
It has O(n log n) running time
Unlike heap-sort
It does not use an auxiliary priority queue
It accesses data in a sequential manner (suitable to sort data on a disk)

83. Merge Sort
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Merge-Sort
Merge-sort on an input sequence S with n elements consists of three steps:
Divide: partition S into two sequences S1 and S2 of about n/2 elements each
Recur: recursively sort S1 and S2
Conquer: merge S1 and S2 into a unique sorted sequence
Algorithm mergeSort(S, C)
Input sequence S with n elements, comparator C
Output sequence S sorted
according to C
if S.size() > 1
(S1, S2)  partition(S, n/2)
mergeSort(S1, C)
mergeSort(S2, C)
S  merge(S1, S2)

84. Merging Two Sorted Sequences
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Merging Two Sorted Sequences
The conquer step of merge-sort consists of merging two sorted sequences A and B into a sorted sequence S containing the union of the elements of A and B
Merging two sorted sequences, each with n/2 elements and implemented by means of a doubly linked list, takes O(n) time
Algorithm merge(A, B)
Input sequences A and B with n/2 elements each
Output sorted sequence of A  B
S  empty sequence
while A.isEmpty()  B.isEmpty()
if A.first().element() < B.first().element()
S.insertLast(A.remove(A.first()))
else
S.insertLast(B.remove(B.first()))
while A.isEmpty() S.insertLast(A.remove(A.first()))
while B.isEmpty() S.insertLast(B.remove(B.first()))
return S

85. Merge Sort
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Merge-Sort Tree
An execution of merge-sort is depicted by a binary tree
each node represents a recursive call of merge-sort and stores
unsorted sequence before the execution and its partition
sorted sequence at the end of the execution
the root is the initial call
the leaves are calls on subsequences of size 0 or 1
7 2  
7  2  2 7
9  4  4 9
7  7
2  2
9  9
4  4

86. Execution Example Partition 7 2 9 4  3 8 6 1  1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9
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Execution Example
Partition
   
7 2  2 7
9 4  4 9
3 8  3 8
6 1  1 6
7  7
2  2
9  9
4  4
3  3
8  8
6  6
1  1

87. Execution Example (cont.)
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Execution Example (cont.)
Recursive call, partition
 
7 2  9 4  
7 2  2 7
9 4  4 9
3 8  3 8
6 1  1 6
7  7
2  2
9  9
4  4
3  3
8  8
6  6
1  1

88. Execution Example (cont.)
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Execution Example (cont.)
Recursive call, partition
 
7 2  9 4  
7  2  2 7
9 4  4 9
3 8  3 8
6 1  1 6
7  7
2  2
9  9
4  4
3  3
8  8
6  6
1  1

89. Execution Example (cont.)
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Execution Example (cont.)
Recursive call, base case
 
7 2  9 4  
7  2  2 7
9 4  4 9
3 8  3 8
6 1  1 6
7  7
2  2
9  9
4  4
3  3
8  8
6  6
1  1

90. Execution Example (cont.)
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Execution Example (cont.)
Recursive call, base case
 
7 2  9 4  
7  2  2 7
9 4  4 9
3 8  3 8
6 1  1 6
7  7
2  2
9  9
4  4
3  3
8  8
6  6
1  1

91. Execution Example (cont.)
Merge Sort
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Execution Example (cont.)
Merge
 
7 2  9 4  
7  2  2 7
9 4  4 9
3 8  3 8
6 1  1 6
7  7
2  2
9  9
4  4
3  3
8  8
6  6
1  1

92. Execution Example (cont.)
Merge Sort
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Execution Example (cont.)
Recursive call, …, base case, merge
 
7 2  9 4  
7  2  2 7
9 4  4 9
3 8  3 8
6 1  1 6
7  7
2  2
9  9
4  4
3  3
8  8
6  6
1  1

93. Execution Example (cont.)
Merge Sort
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Execution Example (cont.)
Merge
 
7 2  9 4  
7  2  2 7
9 4  4 9
3 8  3 8
6 1  1 6
7  7
2  2
9  9
4  4
3  3
8  8
6  6
1  1

94. Execution Example (cont.)
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Execution Example (cont.)
Recursive call, …, merge, merge
 
7 2  9 4  
7  2  2 7
9 4  4 9
3 8  3 8
6 1  1 6
7  7
2  2
9  9
4  4
3  3
8  8
6  6
1  1

95. Execution Example (cont.)
Merge Sort
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Execution Example (cont.)
Merge
 
7 2  9 4  
7  2  2 7
9 4  4 9
3 8  3 8
6 1  1 6
7  7
2  2
9  9
4  4
3  3
8  8
6  6
1  1

96. Analysis of Merge-Sort
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Analysis of Merge-Sort
The height h of the merge-sort tree is O(log n)
at each recursive call we divide in half the sequence,
The overall amount or work done at the nodes of depth i is O(n)
we partition and merge 2i sequences of size n/2i
we make 2i+1 recursive calls
Thus, the total running time of merge-sort is O(n log n)
depth
#seqs
size 1 n 2
n/2 i 2i
n/2i …

97. Nonrecursive Merge-Sort
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Nonrecursive Merge-Sort
public static void mergeSort(Object[] orig, Comparator c) { // nonrecursive
Object[] in = new Object[orig.length]; // make a new temporary array
System.arraycopy(orig,0,in,0,in.length); // copy the input
Object[] out = new Object[in.length]; // output array
Object[] temp; // temp array reference used for swapping
int n = in.length;
for (int i=1; i < n; i*=2) { // each iteration sorts all length-2*i runs
for (int j=0; j < n; j+=2*i) // each iteration merges two length-i pairs
merge(in,out,c,j,i); // merge from in to out two length-i runs at j
temp = in; in = out; out = temp; // swap arrays for next iteration }
// the "in" array contains the sorted array, so re-copy it
System.arraycopy(in,0,orig,0,in.length);
protected static void merge(Object[] in, Object[] out, Comparator c, int start,
int inc) { // merge in[start..start+inc-1] and in[start+inc..start+2*inc-1]
int x = start; // index into run #1
int end1 = Math.min(start+inc, in.length); // boundary for run #1
int end2 = Math.min(start+2*inc, in.length); // boundary for run #2
int y = start+inc; // index into run #2 (could be beyond array boundary)
int z = start; // index into the out array
while ((x < end1) && (y < end2))
if (c.compare(in[x],in[y]) <= 0) out[z++] = in[x++];
else out[z++] = in[y++];
if (x < end1) // first run didn't finish
System.arraycopy(in, x, out, z, end1 - x);
else if (y < end2) // second run didn't finish
System.arraycopy(in, y, out, z, end2 - y);
merge runs of length 2, then 4, then 8, and so on
merge two runs in the in array to the out array

98. Merge Sort
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Quick-Sort 
4 2  2 4
7 9  7 9
2  2
9  9

99. Merge Sort
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Quick-Sort
Quick-sort is a randomized sorting algorithm based on the divide-and-conquer paradigm:
Divide: pick a random element x (called pivot) and partition S into
L elements less than x
E elements equal x
G elements greater than x
Recur: sort L and G
Conquer: join L, E and G x x L G E x

100. Partition We partition an input sequence as follows:
Merge Sort
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Partition
We partition an input sequence as follows:
We remove, in turn, each element y from S and
We insert y into L, E or G, depending on the result of the comparison with the pivot x
Each insertion and removal is at the beginning or at the end of a sequence, and hence takes O(1) time
Thus, the partition step of quick-sort takes O(n) time
Algorithm partition(S, p)
Input sequence S, position p of pivot
Output subsequences L, E, G of the elements of S less than, equal to, or greater than the pivot, resp.
L, E, G  empty sequences
x  S.remove(p)
while S.isEmpty()
y  S.remove(S.first())
if y < x
L.insertLast(y)
else if y = x
E.insertLast(y)
else { y > x }
G.insertLast(y)
return L, E, G

101. Merge Sort
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Quick-Sort Tree
An execution of quick-sort is depicted by a binary tree
Each node represents a recursive call of quick-sort and stores
Unsorted sequence before the execution and its pivot
Sorted sequence at the end of the execution
The root is the initial call
The leaves are calls on subsequences of size 0 or 1 
4 2  2 4
7 9  7 9
2  2
9  9

102. Execution Example Pivot selection 7 2 9 4 3 7 6 1  1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9
Merge Sort
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Execution Example
Pivot selection   
2  2
9 4  4 9
3  3
8  8
9  9
4  4

103. Execution Example (cont.)
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Execution Example (cont.)
Partition, recursive call, pivot selection   
2  2
9 4  4 9
3  3
8  8
9  9
4  4

104. Execution Example (cont.)
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Execution Example (cont.)
Partition, recursive call, base case
   
1  1
9 4  4 9
3  3
8  8
9  9
4  4

105. Execution Example (cont.)
Merge Sort
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Execution Example (cont.)
Recursive call, …, base case, join   
1  1
4 3  3 4
3  3
8  8
9  9
4  4

106. Execution Example (cont.)
Merge Sort
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Execution Example (cont.)
Recursive call, pivot selection   
1  1
4 3  3 4
8  8
9  9
9  9
4  4

107. Execution Example (cont.)
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Execution Example (cont.)
Partition, …, recursive call, base case   
1  1
4 3  3 4
8  8
9  9
9  9
4  4

108. Execution Example (cont.)
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Execution Example (cont.)
Join, join   
1  1
4 3  3 4
8  8
9  9
9  9
4  4

109. Worst-case Running Time
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Worst-case Running Time
The worst case for quick-sort occurs when the pivot is the unique minimum or maximum element
One of L and G has size n - 1 and the other has size 0
The running time is proportional to the sum
n + (n - 1) + …
Thus, the worst-case running time of quick-sort is O(n2)
depth
time n 1
n - 1 … …

110. Merge Sort
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Expected Running Time
Consider a recursive call of quick-sort on a sequence of size s
Good call: the sizes of L and G are each less than 3s/4
Bad call: one of L and G has size greater than 3s/4
A call is good with probability 1/2
1/2 of the possible pivots cause good calls:
 1 1
Good call
Bad call
Bad pivots
Good pivots
Bad pivots

111. Expected Running Time, Part 2
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Expected Running Time, Part 2
Probabilistic Fact: The expected number of coin tosses required in order to get k heads is 2k
For a node of depth i, we expect
i/2 ancestors are good calls
The size of the input sequence for the current call is at most (3/4)i/2n
Therefore, we have
For a node of depth 2log4/3n, the expected input size is one
The expected height of the quick-sort tree is O(log n)
The amount or work done at the nodes of the same depth is O(n)
Thus, the expected running time of quick-sort is O(n log n)

112. In-Place Quick-Sort Quick-sort can be implemented to run in-place
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In-Place Quick-Sort
Quick-sort can be implemented to run in-place
In the partition step, we use replace operations to rearrange the elements of the input sequence such that
the elements less than the pivot have rank less than h
the elements equal to the pivot have rank between h and k
the elements greater than the pivot have rank greater than k
The recursive calls consider
elements with rank less than h
elements with rank greater than k
Algorithm inPlaceQuickSort(S, l, r)
Input sequence S, ranks l and r
Output sequence S with the elements of rank between l and r rearranged in increasing order
if l  r
return
i  a random integer between l and r
x  S.elemAtRank(i)
(h, k)  inPlacePartition(x)
inPlaceQuickSort(S, l, h - 1)
inPlaceQuickSort(S, k + 1, r)

113. In-Place Partitioning
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In-Place Partitioning
Perform the partition using two indices to split S into L and E U G (a similar method can split E U G into E and G).
Repeat until j and k cross:
Scan j to the right until finding an element > x.
Scan k to the left until finding an element < x.
Swap elements at indices j and k j k
(pivot = 6) j k

114. only works for distinct elements
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Java Implementation
public static void quickSort (Object[] S, Comparator c) {
if (S.length < 2) return; // the array is already sorted in this case
quickSortStep(S, c, 0, S.length-1); // recursive sort method }
private static void quickSortStep (Object[] S, Comparator c,
int leftBound, int rightBound ) {
if (leftBound >= rightBound) return; // the indices have crossed
Object temp; // temp object used for swapping
Object pivot = S[rightBound];
int leftIndex = leftBound; // will scan rightward
int rightIndex = rightBound-1; // will scan leftward
while (leftIndex <= rightIndex) { // scan right until larger than the pivot
while ( (leftIndex <= rightIndex) && (c.compare(S[leftIndex], pivot)<=0) )
leftIndex++;
// scan leftward to find an element smaller than the pivot
while ( (rightIndex >= leftIndex) && (c.compare(S[rightIndex], pivot)>=0))
rightIndex--;
if (leftIndex < rightIndex) { // both elements were found
temp = S[rightIndex];
S[rightIndex] = S[leftIndex]; // swap these elements
S[leftIndex] = temp;
} // the loop continues until the indices cross
temp = S[rightBound]; // swap pivot with the element at leftIndex
S[rightBound] = S[leftIndex];
S[leftIndex] = temp; // the pivot is now at leftIndex, so recurse
quickSortStep(S, c, leftBound, leftIndex-1);
quickSortStep(S, c, leftIndex+1, rightBound);
only works for distinct elements

115. Java JDK sorts Java uses both mergesort and quicksort.
Can sort array of type Comparable or any primitive type.
Uses a version of quicksort for primitive types.
Uses a version of mergesort for objects.
Why?

116. Java JDK sorts Explore Arrays.sort N-way! Dual pivot!
Yes; we didn’t cover everything 
See you in Advanced Algorithms (May be)

117. Sorting Lower Bound
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Presentation for use with the textbook Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, 6th edition, by M. T. Goodrich, R. Tamassia, and M. H. Goldwasser, Wiley, 2014
Sorting Lower Bound

118. Comparison-Based Sorting
Many sorting algorithms are comparison based.
They sort by making comparisons between pairs of objects
Examples: bubble-sort, selection-sort, insertion-sort, heap-sort, merge-sort, quick-sort, ...
Let us therefore derive a lower bound on the running time of any algorithm that uses comparisons to sort n elements, x1, x2, …, xn.
Is xi < xj? no
yes

119. Counting Comparisons Let us just count comparisons then.
Each possible run of the algorithm corresponds to a root-to-leaf path in a decision tree

120. Decision Tree Height
The height of the decision tree is a lower bound on the running time
Every input permutation must lead to a separate leaf output
If not, some input …4…5… would have same output ordering as …5…4…, which would be wrong
Since there are n!=12  … n leaves, the height is at least log (n!)

121. The Lower Bound
Any comparison-based sorting algorithms takes at least log (n!) time
Therefore, any such algorithm takes time at least
That is, any comparison-based sorting algorithm must run in W(n log n) time.

122. Sorting in time less than O(n logn)
How!!

123. Out of comparison world
We do not compare
We assume we deal with integers
And we assume a limited range
Character strings are fine too
Let us see

124. Merge Sort
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Counting sort A: 4 1 3 B: 2 5 C:
C':

125. Counting sort Knowledge: the numbers fall in a small range
Example 1: sort the final exam score of a large class
1000 students
Maximum score: 100
Minimum score: 0
Scores are integers
Example 2: sort students according to the first letter of their last name
Number of students: many
Number of letters: 26

126. Counting sort Input: A[1 . . n], where A[ j]Î{1, 2, …, k} .
Output: B[1 . . n], sorted.
Auxiliary storage: C[1 . . k] .
Not an in-place sorting algorithm
Requires  (n+k) additional storage besides the original array

127. Intuition S1: 100 S2: 90 S3: 85 S4: 100 S5: 90 … 85 90 100 S3 S2 S1 S585 90
100 S3 S2 S1 S5 S4
… S3 … S2, S5, …, S1, S4

128. Intuition 75 85 90 100 1 1 2 2 50 students with score ≤ 75
What is the rank (lowest to highest) for a student with score = 75? 50
200 students with score ≤ 90
What is the rank for a student with score = 90?
200

129. Counting sort for i  1 to k do C[i]  0 for j  1 to n1.
for i  1 to k
do C[i]  0
for j  1 to n
do C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] + 1 ⊳ C[i] = |{key = i}|
for i  2 to k
do C[i]  C[i] + C[i–1] ⊳ C[i] = |{key £ i}|
for j  n downto 1
do B[C[A[ j]]]  A[ j]
C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] – 1
Initialize 2.
Count 3.
Compute running sum 4.
Re-arrange

130. Counting-sort example1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: B:

131. Loop 1: initialization A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: B: for i  1 to k do C[i]  02 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: B: 1.
for i  1 to k
do C[i]  0

132. Loop 2: count A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 B: for j  1 to n5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 B: 2.
for j  1 to n
do C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] + 1 ⊳ C[i] = |{key = i}|

133. Loop 2: count A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 B: for j  1 to n5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 B: 2.
for j  1 to n
do C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] + 1 ⊳ C[i] = |{key = i}|

134. Loop 2: count A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 1 B: for j  1 to n5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 1 B: 2.
for j  1 to n
do C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] + 1 ⊳ C[i] = |{key = i}|

135. Loop 2: count A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 2 B: for j  1 to n5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 2 B: 2.
for j  1 to n
do C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] + 1 ⊳ C[i] = |{key = i}|

136. Loop 2: count A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 2 2 B: for j  1 to n5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 2 2 B: 2.
for j  1 to n
do C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] + 1 ⊳ C[i] = |{key = i}|

137. Loop 3: compute running sum1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 2 2 B:
C': 1 1 2 2 3.
for i  2 to k
do C[i]  C[i] + C[i–1] ⊳ C[i] = |{key £ i}|

138. Loop 3: compute running sum1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 2 2 B:
C': 1 1 3 2 3.
for i  2 to k
do C[i]  C[i] + C[i–1] ⊳ C[i] = |{key £ i}|

139. Loop 3: compute running sum1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 2 2 B:
C': 1 1 3 5 3.
for i  2 to k
do C[i]  C[i] + C[i–1] ⊳ C[i] = |{key £ i}|

140. Loop 4: re-arrange A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 3 5 B: 3 C': 1 1 3 52 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 3 5 B: 3
C': 1 1 3 5 4.
for j  n downto 1
do B[C[A[ j]]]  A[ j]
C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] – 1

141. Loop 4: re-arrange A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 3 5 B: 3 C': 1 1 2 54.
for j  n downto 1
do B[C[A[ j]]]  A[ j]
C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] – 1

142. Loop 4: re-arrange A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 2 5 B: 3 4 C': 1 1 2 54.
for j  n downto 1
do B[C[A[ j]]]  A[ j]
C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] – 1

143. Loop 4: re-arrange A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 2 5 B: 3 4 C': 1 1 2 44.
for j  n downto 1
do B[C[A[ j]]]  A[ j]
C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] – 1

144. Loop 4: re-arrange A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 2 4 B: 3 3 4 C': 1 1 2 45 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 2 4 B: 3 3 4
C': 1 1 2 4 4.
for j  n downto 1
do B[C[A[ j]]]  A[ j]
C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] – 1

145. Loop 4: re-arrange A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 2 4 B: 3 3 4 C': 1 1 1 45 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 2 4 B: 3 3 4
C': 1 1 1 4 4.
for j  n downto 1
do B[C[A[ j]]]  A[ j]
C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] – 1

146. Loop 4: re-arrange A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 1 4 B: 1 3 3 4 C': 1 1 1 42 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 1 4 B: 1 3 3 4
C': 1 1 1 4 4.
for j  n downto 1
do B[C[A[ j]]]  A[ j]
C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] – 1

147. Loop 4: re-arrange A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 1 4 B: 1 3 3 4 C': 1 1 42 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 1 4 B: 1 3 3 4
C': 1 1 4 4.
for j  n downto 1
do B[C[A[ j]]]  A[ j]
C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] – 1

148. Loop 4: re-arrange A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 4 B: 1 3 3 4 4 C': 1 1 42 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 4 B: 1 3 3 4 4
C': 1 1 4 4.
for j  n downto 1
do B[C[A[ j]]]  A[ j]
C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] – 1

149. Loop 4: re-arrange A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 4 B: 1 3 3 4 4 C': 1 1 32 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 A: 4 1 3 4 3 C: 1 1 4 B: 1 3 3 4 4
C': 1 1 3 4.
for j  n downto 1
do B[C[A[ j]]]  A[ j]
C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] – 1

150. Analysis Q(k) Q(n) Q(k) Q(n) Q(n + k) 1. for i  1 to k do C[i]  0 2.
for j  1 to n
do C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] + 1
Q(n) 3.
for i  2 to k
do C[i]  C[i] + C[i–1]
Q(k) 4.
for j  n downto 1
do B[C[A[ j]]]  A[ j]
C[A[ j]]  C[A[ j]] – 1
Q(n)
Q(n + k)

151. Running time If k = O(n), then counting sort takes Q(n) time.
But, theoretical lower-bound sorting takes W(n log n) time!
Why does counting sort takes less?
Answer:
Comparison sorting takes W(n log n) time.
Counting sort is not a comparison sort.
In fact, not a single comparison between elements occurs!

152. Counting Sort Cool! Why don’t we always use counting sort?
Because it depends on range k of elements
Could we use counting sort to sort 32 bit integers? Why or why not?
Answer: no, k too large (232 = 4,294,967,296)

153. Stable sorting
Counting sort is a stable sort: it preserves the input order among equal elements. A: 4 1 3 B:
Why this is important?
We will see now

154. Importance of stability
Let us browse thru this “address sorting example”

155. Task: sort students by alphabetical order of their addresses (state, city, street).

156. Task: sort students by alphabetical order of their addresses (state, city, street).

157. Task: sort students by alphabetical order of their addresses (state, city, street).

158. Is this useful ?!

159. Original set:
Task: sort students by alphabetical order of their addresses (state, city, street).

160. Task: sort students by alphabetical order of their addresses (state, city, street).

161. Task: sort students by alphabetical order of their addresses (state, city, street).

162. Task: sort students by alphabetical order of their addresses (state, city, street).

163. Task: sort students by alphabetical order of their addresses (state, city, street).

164. Original set:
Task: sort students by alphabetical order of their addresses (state, city, street).

165. Task: sort students by alphabetical order of their addresses (state, city, street).

166. Task: sort students by alphabetical order of their addresses (state, city, street).

167. Task: sort students by alphabetical order of their addresses (state, city, street).

168. Stabling a sort Most Θ(n^2) sorting algorithms are stable
Standard selection sort is not, but can be made so
Most Θ(n log n) sorting algorithms are not stable
Except merge sort
Generic way to make any sorting algorithm stable
Use two keys, the second key is the original index of the element
When two elements are equal, compare their second keys
5, 6, 5, 1, 2, 3, 2, 6
(5, 1), (6, 2), (5, 3), (1, 4), (2, 5), (3, 6), (2, 7), (6, 8)
(2, 5) < (2, 7)
(5, 1) < (5, 3)

169. How to sort very large numbers?
Those numbers are too large for the int type.
They are represented as strings.
One method: Use comparison-based sorting, but compare strings character by character.
Change if (A[i] < A[j]) to if (compare(A[i], A[j]) < 0)
Compare(s, t)
for i = 1 to length(s)
if (s[i] < t[i]) return -1;
else if (s[i] > t[i]) return 1;
return 0;
What’s the cost to compare two strings, each with d characters?
Total cost: Θ(d n log n)
Θ(d)

170. Radix sort Similar to sorting address books Treat each digit as a key
Start from the least significant bit
Most significant
Least significant
198099
340199
384700
382408
614386

171. Radix sort illustration
simpler examples:

172. Radix sort illustration
Sort the last digit:

173. Radix sort illustration
Sort the second digit:

174. Radix sort illustration
Sort the first digit:
Sorted

175. Time complexity Sort each of the d digits by counting sort
Total cost: d (n + k)
k = 10
Total cost: Θ(dn)
Partition the d digits into groups of 3
Total cost: (n+103)d/3
We work with binaries rather than decimals
Partition d bits into groups of r bits
Total cost: (n+2r)d/r
Choose r = log n
Total cost: dn / log n
Compare with dn log n
Catch: radix sort has a larger hidden constant factor

176. Space complexity Calls counting sort
Therefore additional storage is needed
(n)

177. Radix Sort In general, radix sort based on counting sort is
Fast
Asymptotically fast (i.e., O(n))
Simple to code
A good choice
To think about: Can we radix sort be used on floating-point numbers? mm….

178. Bucket-Sort 1, c 3, a 3, b 7, d 7, g 7, e  1  2 3  4  5  6 7  8
Merge Sort
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Bucket-Sort
1, c
3, a
3, b
7, d
7, g
7, e  1  2 3  4  5  6 7  8  9 B

179. Merge Sort
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Bucket-Sort
Let be S be a sequence of n (key, element) entries with keys in the range [0, N - 1]
Bucket-sort uses the keys as indices into an auxiliary array B of sequences (buckets)
Phase 1: Empty sequence S by moving each entry (k, o) into its bucket B[k]
Phase 2: For i = 0, …, N - 1, move the entries of bucket B[i] to the end of sequence S
Analysis:
Phase 1 takes O(n) time
Phase 2 takes O(n + N) time
Bucket-sort takes O(n + N) time
Algorithm bucketSort(S, N)
Input sequence S of (key, element) items with keys in the range [0, N - 1] Output sequence S sorted by increasing keys
B  array of N empty sequences
while S.isEmpty()
f  S.first()
(k, o)  S.remove(f)
B[k].insertLast((k, o))
for i  0 to N - 1
while B[i].isEmpty()
f  B[i].first()
(k, o)  B[i].remove(f)
S.insertLast((k, o))

180. Example Key range [0, 9] 7, d 1, c 3, a 7, g 3, b 7, e Phase 1 B 1, c
Merge Sort
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Example
Key range [0, 9]
7, d
1, c
3, a
7, g
3, b
7, e
Phase 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 B
1, c
7, d
7, g
3, b
3, a
7, e 
Phase 2
1, c
3, a
3, b
7, d
7, g
7, e

182. Properties and Extensions
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Properties and Extensions
Key-type Property
The keys are used as indices into an array and cannot be arbitrary objects
No external comparator
Stable Sort Property
The relative order of any two items with the same key is preserved after the execution of the algorithm
Extensions
Integer keys in the range [a, b]
Put entry (k, o) into bucket B[k - a]
String keys from a set D of possible strings, where D has constant size (e.g., names of the 50 U.S. states)
Sort D and compute the rank r(k) of each string k of D in the sorted sequence
Put entry (k, o) into bucket B[r(k)]

183. Merge Sort
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Radix-Sort in [G]

184. Merge Sort
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Lexicographic Order
A d-tuple is a sequence of d keys (k1, k2, …, kd), where key ki is said to be the i-th dimension of the tuple
Example:
The Cartesian coordinates of a point in space are a 3-tuple
The lexicographic order of two d-tuples is recursively defined as follows
(x1, x2, …, xd) < (y1, y2, …, yd)  x1 < y1  x1 = y1  (x2, …, xd) < (y2, …, yd)
I.e., the tuples are compared by the first dimension, then by the second dimension, etc.

185. Lexicographic-Sort Example: Algorithm lexicographicSort(S)
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Lexicographic-Sort
Algorithm lexicographicSort(S)
Input sequence S of d-tuples Output sequence S sorted in lexicographic order
for i  d downto 1
stableSort(S, Ci)
Let Ci be the comparator that compares two tuples by their i-th dimension
Let stableSort(S, C) be a stable sorting algorithm that uses comparator C
Lexicographic-sort sorts a sequence of d-tuples in lexicographic order by executing d times algorithm stableSort, one per dimension
Lexicographic-sort runs in O(dT(n)) time, where T(n) is the running time of stableSort
Example:
(7,4,6) (5,1,5) (2,4,6) (2, 1, 4) (3, 2, 4)
(2, 1, 4) (3, 2, 4) (5,1,5) (7,4,6) (2,4,6)
(2, 1, 4) (5,1,5) (3, 2, 4) (7,4,6) (2,4,6)
(2, 1, 4) (2,4,6) (3, 2, 4) (5,1,5) (7,4,6)

186. Merge Sort
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Radix-Sort
Radix-sort is a specialization of lexicographic-sort that uses bucket-sort as the stable sorting algorithm in each dimension
Radix-sort is applicable to tuples where the keys in each dimension i are integers in the range [0, N - 1]
Radix-sort runs in time O(d( n + N))
Algorithm radixSort(S, N)
Input sequence S of d-tuples such
that (0, …, 0)  (x1, …, xd) and (x1, …, xd)  (N - 1, …, N - 1) for each tuple (x1, …, xd) in S Output sequence S sorted in lexicographic order
for i  d downto 1
bucketSort(S, N)

187. Radix-Sort for Binary Numbers
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Radix-Sort for Binary Numbers
Consider a sequence of n b-bit integers x = xb - 1 … x1x0
We represent each element as a b-tuple of integers in the range [0, 1] and apply radix-sort with N = 2
This application of the radix-sort algorithm runs in O(bn) time
For example, we can sort a sequence of 32-bit integers in linear time
Algorithm binaryRadixSort(S)
Input sequence S of b-bit integers Output sequence S sorted
replace each element x of S with the item (0, x)
for i  0 to b - 1
replace the key k of each item (k, x) of S with bit xi of x
bucketSort(S, 2)

188. Example Sorting a sequence of 4-bit integers 1001 0010 1101 0001 1110
Merge Sort
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Example
Sorted
Sorting a sequence of 4-bit integers
1001
0010
1101
0001
1110
0010
1110
1001
1101
0001
1001
1101
0001
0010
1110
1001
0001
0010
1101
1110
0001
0010
1001
1101
1110

189. Merge Sort
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Selection in [G]

190. Merge Sort
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The Selection Problem
Given an integer k and n elements x1, x2, …, xn, taken from a total order, find the k-th smallest element in this set.
Of course, we can sort the set in O(n log n) time and then index the k-th element.
Can we solve the selection problem faster?
k=3 

191. Merge Sort
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Quick-Select
Quick-select is a randomized selection algorithm based on the prune-and-search paradigm:
Prune: pick a random element x (called pivot) and partition S into
L elements less than x
E elements equal x
G elements greater than x
Search: depending on k, either answer is in E, or we need to recurse in either L or G x x L G E
k > |L|+|E|
k’ = k - |L| - |E|
k < |L|
|L| < k < |L|+|E|
(done)

192. Merge Sort
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Partition
We partition an input sequence as in the quick-sort algorithm:
We remove, in turn, each element y from S and
We insert y into L, E or G, depending on the result of the comparison with the pivot x
Each insertion and removal is at the beginning or at the end of a sequence, and hence takes O(1) time
Thus, the partition step of quick-select takes O(n) time
Algorithm partition(S, p)
Input sequence S, position p of pivot
Output subsequences L, E, G of the elements of S less than, equal to, or greater than the pivot, resp.
L, E, G  empty sequences
x  S.remove(p)
while S.isEmpty()
y  S.remove(S.first())
if y < x
L.insertLast(y)
else if y = x
E.insertLast(y)
else { y > x }
G.insertLast(y)
return L, E, G

193. Quick-Select Visualization
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Quick-Select Visualization
An execution of quick-select can be visualized by a recursion path
Each node represents a recursive call of quick-select, and stores k and the remaining sequence
k=5, S=( )
k=2, S=( )
k=2, S=( )
k=1, S=( ) 5

194. Merge Sort
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Expected Running Time
Consider a recursive call of quick-select on a sequence of size s
Good call: the sizes of L and G are each less than 3s/4
Bad call: one of L and G has size greater than 3s/4
A call is good with probability 1/2
1/2 of the possible pivots cause good calls:
 1 1
Good call
Bad call
Bad pivots
Good pivots
Bad pivots

195. Deterministic Selection
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Deterministic Selection
We can do selection in O(n) worst-case time.
Main idea: recursively use the selection algorithm itself to find a good pivot for quick-select:
Divide S into n/5 sets of 5 each
Find a median in each set
Recursively find the median of the “baby” medians.
Min size
for L 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
Min size
for G

196. Reading [G] Chapter 12: Sorting and Selection
[C] Chapter 8: Sorting in Linear Time
Repeated material
[C] Chapter 9: Medians and Order Statistics
[L] Section 7.1: Sorting by Counting
All about Trees is not required <yet>
All about Graphs is not required <yet>

197. For Murtaja x ← x + y // x holds x + y, y holds y
y ← x − y // x holds x + y, y holds x
x ← x − y // x holds y, and y holds x
The same trick is applicable to any binary data by (XOR) operation:
Start: x=0100 y=1010
x ← x XOR y x=1110 y=1010
y ← x XOR y x=1110 y=0100
x ← x XOR y x=1010 y=0100