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Hi Student,
Lets understand Binary Search First:
Given the following dataset of 9 items in sorted order, find the value 8:
[11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19]
The first step is to check the midpoint (there are 9 elements, so the midpoint would be (9+1)/2 which is the 5th element):
[11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19]
Well, 15 is not 18 so we're not done yet. Is 18 less than 15? No. Is 18 greater than 15? Yes. So we know that the value we seek is in the second half of the array (if it's there). We are now left with:
[16 17 18 19]
Oops. 4 does not have a midpoint, so we round off any way we want to (it really doesn't matter). (4+1)/2 = 2.5, so for the sake of argument lets just drop the decimal and check the 2nd element (this is how integer math works anyway, so it's simpler):
[16 17 18 19]
Well, 17 is not 18 so we're not done yet. Is 18 less than 17? No. Is 18 greater than 17? Yes. So we know that the value we seek is in the second half of the array (if it's there). We are now left with:
[18 19]
Again we find the midpoint, which in this case is 1.
[18 19]
Does 18 equal 18? Yes! We're done!
Since we have understood now how a binary search works now lets jump in to understand the binary insertion sort. Insertion sort in which the proper location for the next item is found with a binary search.
void BinaryInsertionSort (int a[], int n)
{
int pos, i, j;
int x;
for (i = 1; i < n; i++) { // scan each element from the array
pos = BinarySearch (a, 0, i, a[i]); // find position using a binary search
if (pos < i) { // if the curr pos is less than i
x = a[i]; // temporary var
for (j = i - 1; j >= pos; j--) // replace till the positions
a[j + 1] = a[j];
a[pos] = x; // insert the element in its correct location
}
}
}
Binary insertion sort Beefits
sequential search --> binary search
reduce # of comparisons,and # of moves unchanged
Happy Learning :)
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