complexity

 

Insertion Sort Best Case Analysis

 

The best case input is an array that is already sorted.

 

In this case insertion sort has a linear running time (i.e., Θ(n)).

 

During each iteration, the first remaining element of the input is only compared with the right-most element of the sorted subsection of the array

 

Given Input: [5 6 7 8 9 ]

 

  1. Item=6 > data[0]=1. while condition is false and data[1] is assigned with item=6.
    Number of Comparison= 1

  2. Item=7 > data[1]=1. while condition become false and data[2] is assigned with item=7.
    Number of Comparison is 1

  3. Item=8 > data[2]=7. while condition become false and data[3] is assigned with item=8.
    Number of Comparison is 1

  4. Item=9 > data[3]=8. while condition become false and data[4] is assigned with item=9.
    Number of Comparison is 1

 

 

Best Case Analysis

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There are 4 passes to sort array with elements.


In each pass there is only 1 comparison.


Example,


Pass 1, 1 comparison
Pass 2, 1 comparison
Pass 3, 1 comparison
Pass 4, 1 comparison


In this example, the total comparisons for an array with size 5 is 4. Therefore, for best case, the number of comparison is n- 1 which gives linear time complexity linear O(n).

 

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