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What is heap sort?

What is heap sort?

Heap sort is a comparison-based sorting technique based on Binary Heap data structure. It is similar to selection sort where we first find the minimum element and place the minimum element at the beginning. We repeat the same process for the remaining elements. What is Binary Heap?

How to sort a sorted list using Max-Heapify?

Then we recursively call Max-Heapify () function on first element and we again get heap with first element as largest, we again swap it with the last element and reduce the size of a heap by one. We continue this process until our heap size remains one. Finally, we get our sorted list.

What is the difference between heapsort and introsort?

Although in practise heap sort run slower than quick sort and merge sort on modern computers. Introsort is an alternative to heapsort that combines quicksort and heapsort to retain advantages of both: worst case speed of heapsort and average speed of quicksort.

What is the total time complexity of heap sort in Python?

Since in Heap Sort we first call Build-Max-Heap function which takes O (n) time then we call Max-Heapify function n time, where Max-Heapify function takes O (logn) time so, total time complexity of heap-sort comes out to be O (n+n*logn) which further evaluated to O (n*logn). Summarising all this –

How to increase the size of the heap?

1. Build a max heap from the input data. 2. At this point, the largest item is stored at the root of the heap. Replace it with the last item of the heap followed… 3. Repeat step 2 while size of heap is greater than 1.

What is a binary heap?

A Binary Heap is a Complete Binary Tree where items are stored in a special order such that the value in a parent node is greater (or smaller) than the values in its two children nodes. The former is called max heap and the latter is called min-heap. The heap can be represented by a binary tree or array.

What is max heap and min heap in Java?

The former is called max heap and the latter is called min-heap. The heap can be represented by a binary tree or array. Why array based representation for Binary Heap? Since a Binary Heap is a Complete Binary Tree, it can be easily represented as an array and the array-based representation is space-efficient.

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