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In computer science, patience sorting is a sorting algorithm inspired by, and named after, the card game patience. A variant of the algorithm efficiently computes the length of a longest increasing subsequence in a given array.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patience sorting | Best-case performance | O(n); occurs when the input is pre-sorted | 1.00 | infobox |
| Patience sorting | Class | Sorting algorithm | 1.00 | infobox |
| Patience sorting | Data structure | Array | 1.00 | infobox |
| Patience sorting | Optimal | ? | 1.00 | infobox |
| Patience sorting | Worst-case performance | O(n log n) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Patience sorting | is a | sorting algorithm inspired by | 0.90 | text |
| Patience sorting | related to history | Patience | 0.60 | section |
| Patience sorting | related to history | Colin Lingwood Mallows | 0.60 | section |
| Patience sorting | related to history | Ross | 0.60 | section |
| Patience sorting | related to history | According | 0.60 | section |
| Patience sorting | related to history | Aldous | 0.60 | section |
| Patience sorting | related to history | Diaconis | 0.60 | section |
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