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  "name": "Best-case analysis",
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  "summary": "Gives the minimum running time over all inputs of a given size.",
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      "locator": "article Best, worst and average case (definition of the best case)"
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      "book": "isbn:9780262046305",
      "title": "Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein, Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition",
      "locator": "Section 2.2 (analysis of insertion sort, best case)"
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      "book": "isbn:9780321573513",
      "title": "Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne, Algorithms, fourth edition",
      "locator": "Section 1.4 (Analysis of Algorithms) and Section 2.1 (insertion sort)"
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      "book": "isbn:9780201896855",
      "title": "Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3, second edition",
      "locator": "Section 5.2.1 (sorting by insertion)"
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