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Thirty four comparisons are required to sort 13 items

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The number of comparisons made in merge insertion sort

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu-shi, 182, Tokyo, Japan

    Takumi Kasai, Shusaku Sawato & Shigeki Iwata

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Neil D. Jones Masami Hagiya Masahiko Sato

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Kasai, T., Sawato, S., Iwata, S. (1994). Thirty four comparisons are required to sort 13 items. In: Jones, N.D., Hagiya, M., Sato, M. (eds) Logic, Language and Computation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 792. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0032405

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