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Sorting Algorithms

Highly-organized data can be critical for many algorithms, and often you want your data ordered from least to greatest. The art of getting your data in order is trickier than you might think!

Heap Sort

A crucial element of the Heap_Sort is the construction of the heap itself. This is achieved by calling a heapify procedure on some nodes until all nodes satisfy the Max_Heap property( Any node must have a value less or equal to that of its parent ).

The node in position \(2\) violates the heap property. Once heapify is applied to it, which position will it be in?

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def Heap_Sort( A ):
    Build_Heap(A)
    for i in range(A.size, 1, -1): #loop down from A.size to 2
        # !MISSING LINE !!!
        A.size -= 1
        Max_Heapify(A,1)
    return list(A.A)

Consider the Heap_Sort method above. Given a list of numbers A it will construct a heap and sort them. One line is however missing(line 4). What line of code should be there in order to have a properly functioning Heap_Sort algorithm.

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  • The method assumes that the index of the first item is \(1\) not \(0\).
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A crucial element of the Heap_Sort is the construction of the heap itself. This is achieved by calling a heapify procedure on some nodes until all nodes satisfy the Max_Heap property( Any node must have a value less or equal to that of its parent ).

Suppose we have a an array with \(51\) elements. At most, how many calls to heapify are required to convert it to a heap?

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