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Can anyone provide me good book about finding the time complexity of the algorithms.
I want to find the time complexity of all sorting algorithms.
I want good pdf or link which will explain me in easy language.

I must be able to find the time complexity of any algorithm after reading it.

Thanks in advance...
 
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I must be able to find the time complexity of any algorithm after reading it.


It's not impossible, but unlikely, that such a book exists.

Niklaus Wirth's free Algorithms and Data Structures book analyzes numerous sorting algorithms (and some others).
 
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That link is broken.

 
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Ah, the site has moved here: http://www-old.oberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/AD.pdf
 
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chetan dhumane wrote:I must be able to find the time complexity of any algorithm after reading it.


This is not a trivial thing to learn. Entire college courses are taught on finding complexity of algorithms - although sorting is only part of that semester.

It's not cheap, but this is the book we used in my class. I thought it was excellent.
 
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fred rosenberger wrote:
It's not cheap, but this is the book we used in my class. I thought it was excellent.



Yes, its one of the best book on the subject, and I think its the standard text book for almost all Computer Algorithms courses, or at least the courses I know prefer this book.
 
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Wirth's Algortihms and Data Structures, wow that takes me back to when I used that book in my data structures class 30 years ago. My daughter is using my copy as a reference for the data structures class she is taking this semester.

Ulf, thank you so much for posting the link to the PDF, I never even thought to see if it was online.

Looking at the PDF, it appears to be an updated version with the algorithms written in Pascal. That sure would have been handy for my class since we used Pascal. The copy I have has all the algorithms in assembly.
 
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Oops, I misspoke (mistyped???). I don't have a copy of Wirth's book - he's the Pascal and Module 2 guy (I do have his books on those languages). What I have is volume 1 of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming which focuses on algorithms.
 
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Peter Johnson wrote:What I have is volume 1 of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming which focuses on algorithms.


I feel better now - I could have sworn that "Algorithms and Data Structures" came out initially with Pascal examples, later on using Modula-2, and the last edition (the one in the PDF) using Oberon. That Wirth would have used assembly as a teaching device would have baffled me...
 
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