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Quicksort worst case runtime is quadratic, O(n^2)
Doug McIlroy's 1999 paper “A Killer Adversary for Quicksort” describes how to find inputs to the sort that display this quadratic behavior. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/mdmspe.pdf Here's a discussion on the topic by Russ Cox at http://research.swtch.com/qsort
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