TY - RPRT T1 - Sorting presorted files T3 - Saarbrücken, 1978 A1 - Mehlhorn,Kurt Y1 - 2011/07/29 N2 - A new sorting algorithm is presented. Its running time is O(n(1+10g(F/n)) where F = I{(f,j); i < j and xi < xj}1 is the total number of inversions in the input sequence xn xn_1 xn_2 ... x2 xl• In other words, presorted sequences are sorted quickly, and completely unsorted sequences are sorted in O(n log n) steps. Note that F < n2/2 always. Furthermore, the constant of proportionality is fairly small and hence the sorting method is competitive with existing methods for not too large n. CY - Saarbrücken PB - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek AD - Postfach 151141, 66041 Saarbrücken UR - http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2011/4042 ER -