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What kind of sorting algorithm does insertion sorting use?


Asked by Lilly Blackwell on Dec 12, 2021 FAQ



Insertion Sorting •It is a simple Sorting algorithm which sorts the array by shifting elements one • by one.
Accordingly,
This is an in-place comparison-based sorting algorithm. Here, a sub-list is maintained which is always sorted. For example, the lower part of an array is maintained to be sorted. An element which is to be 'insert'ed in this sorted sub-list, has to find its appropriate place and then it has to be inserted there. Hence the name, insertion sort.
Subsequently, Insertion sort and Quick-sort are in place sort as we move the elements about the pivot and do not actually use a separate array which is NOT the case in merge sort where the size of the input must be allocated beforehand to store the output during the sort.
Consequently,
Some of the most common sorting algorithms are: 1 Selection Sort 2 Bubble Sort 3 Insertion Sort 4 Merge Sort 5 Quick Sort 6 Heap Sort 7 Counting Sort 8 Radix Sort 9 Bucket Sort
Likewise,
Sometimes w is presented as a constant, which would make radix sort better (for sufficiently large n) than the best comparison-based sorting algorithms, which all perform O (n log n) comparisons to sort n keys.