Sorting Algorithms

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sorting algorithms

acceptability?

mathematicians

disproving

counterexamples automatically debunk algorithms

origin

Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi, who was part of the royal court in Baghdad and who lived from about 780 to 850

types

quicksort

n^2

mergesort

use substitution processes in order to prove recurrence

John von Neumann

binary in nature

published 1946, dates back to 200BC

1945

bubble

first documented: 1956

Radix

1904

debates?

mostly focused on how efficient the run-time of the algorithms are, rather than if they are accepted as theory

non-existent because of the very nature of proving algorithms and how they are accepted by the scientific community