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Pracniques: Meansort

By Dalia Motzkin
Communications of the ACM, April 1983, Vol. 26 No. 4, Pages 250-251
10.1145/2163.358088
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This paper presents an efficient algorithm based on Quicksort. The Quicksort algorithm is known to be one of the most efficient sorting techniques; however, one of the drawbacks of this method is its worst case situation of 0 (n2) comparisons. The algorithm presented here improves the average behavior of Quicksort and reduces the occurrence of worst case situations. 3~

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