This Clojure / ClojureScript library implements the Merge Insertion sorting algorithm (also known as the Ford-Johnson Algorithm). Merge Insertion Sort is a comparison sort that minimizes the ...

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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 ...

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There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

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