Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Patience sorting is a sorting algorithm, based on a solitaire card game, that has the property of being able to efficiently compute the length of the longest increasing subsequence in a given array.Given an n-element array with an ordering relation as an input for the sorting, cons ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Patience sorting is a sorting algorithm, based on a solitaire card game, that has the property of being able to efficiently compute the length of the longest increasing subsequence in a given array.Given an n-element array with an ordering relation as an input for the sorting, consider it as a collection of cards, with the (unknown in the beginning) statistical ordering of each element serving as its index. Note that the game never uses the actual value of the card, except for comparison between two cards, and the relative ordering of any two array elements is known.