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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

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Insertion sort is a simple sorting algorithm and it is used to sort an array by iteratively inserting elements into a sorted subarray that results in a final sorted array. Insertion sort starts ...