A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

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 ...

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Hi @RhythmPahwa14,As a GSSoC'25 participant, I would like to work on adding the Shell Sort visualization to the project. Currently, ...

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.

sort_a_unstable_ascending() and sort_a_unstable_descending() are the unstable sorting functions that sort elements in either ascending or descending order while discarding original sort order context.

Abstract: This paper introduces a clustering-based in-place sorting algorithm, cluster sort. It is designed in such a way that it improves sorting efficiency by using data locality. It works in two ...

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 ...

Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons take on the style echo chamber. Fendi celebrates choice. By Vanessa Friedman Reporting from Milan The corrosive effects of our online lives have been pretty front and ...