Sorting Algorithms

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o&scm

Ved Carla Olivella Ruiz

web 2.0

Ved Logan Cowan

GREEN CHEMISTRY

Ved Loredana Di Donato

Buddhism

Ved Melisande Penh

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