Detailed statistics are given on the length of maximal sorted strings which result from the first (internal sort) phase of a merge sort onto tapes. It is shown that the strings produced by an ...

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Merge sort is entirely different than the sorting algorithms we’ve seen so far, and it represents an important class of algorithms—divide-and-conquer algorithms. Divide-and-conquer algorithms work by ...

Bucket sort and radix sort work using a distribute and collect approach without making comparisons. In appropriate use cases, these can be faster than \mathcal{O}(n \log n) algorithms like quicksort ...

Abstract: Arrangement of elements in a dataset often forms a crucial aspect in determining the overall performance of the underlying algorithms. Elements arranged in sorted order, either ascending or ...

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Abstract: Motivated by the DNA storage paradigm, we consider the torn-paper channel (TPC), which models data storage in long DNA molecules and breaks the input sequence into a random number of ...