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A high-speed sorting procedure

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 3 , Issue 1 (January 1960) table of contents

Pages: 20 - 22

Year of Publication: 1960

ISSN:0001-0782

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R. M. Frank	Los Alamos Scientific Lab, Los Alamos, NM
R. B. Lazarus	Los Alamos Scientific Lab, Los Alamos, NM

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In a recent note1, D. L. Shell has described a high-speed sorting procedure for lists contained in internal memory. The method has the great virtues of requiring no additional memory space and being considerably faster than other such methods, which require a time proportional to the square of the list length. The present authors have studied the statistics of Shell's method and have found a minor modification which increases its speed still further.

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D. L. Shell, A high-speed sorting procedure, Communications of the ACM, v.2 n.7, p.30-32, July 1959 [doi>10.1145/368370.368387]

CITED BY 7

	W. A. Martin, Sorting, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), v.3 n.4, p.147-174, Dec. 1971
	Michael H. Hall, A method of comparing the time requirements of sorting methods, Communications of the ACM, v.6 n.5, p.259-263, May 1963
	Thomas N. Hibbard, An empirical study of minimal storage sorting, Communications of the ACM, v.6 n.5, p.206-213, May 1963
	Thomas N. Hibbard, Some Combinatorial Properties of Certain Trees With Applications to Searching and Sorting, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.9 n.1, p.13-28, Jan. 1962
	Thomas N. Hibbard, A Simple Sorting Algorithm, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.10 n.2, p.142-150, April 1963
	W. D. Frazer , A. C. McKellar, Samplesort: A Sampling Approach to Minimal Storage Tree Sorting, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.17 n.3, p.496-507, July 1970
	R. Cypher, A lower bound on the size of shellsort networks, Proceedings of the first annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures, p.58-63, June 18-21, 1989, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

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R. M. Frank: colleagues

R. B. Lazarus: colleagues

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