The Ford-Johnson algorithm, discovered by Lester R. Ford Jr. and Selmer M. Johnson in 1959, is historically significant as it was the first algorithm to sort n elements with fewer than the information ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

I would like to contribute an implementation of the IntroSort (Introspective Sort) algorithm in C. IntroSort is a hybrid sorting algorithm that begins with QuickSort, switches to HeapSort when ...

The libsais library provides fast linear-time construction of suffix array (SA), generalized suffix array (GSA), longest common prefix (LCP) array, permuted LCP (PLCP) array, Burrows-Wheeler transform ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

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Abstract: A list of components can be arranged in a certain order using a sorting algorithm, which is a fundamental concept in computer science. The temporal complexity of the two fundamental and ...

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 ...