name of a sorting algorithm

Jabba Laci jabba.laci at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 10:01:05 EST 2012


Hi,

Could someone please tell me what the following sorting algorithm is called?

Let an array contain the elements a_1, a_2, ..., a_N. Then:

for i = 1 to N-1:
    for j = i+1 to N:
        if a_j < a_i then swap(a_j, a_i)

It's so simple that it's not mentioned anywhere. I guess it's called
"selection sort" but I'm not sure. The minimum selection sort is an
improvement of this one.

Thanks,

Laszlo



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