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Re:Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algori... by 6510 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:33PM (#28763593)
My gut says that combining that with other sort cycles in some magic ratio could do magical things. I'm quite wrong quite often ofc but the adventure is out there!
Re:Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algori... by a1369209993 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:44PM (#28780809)
Fun fact: Fisher-Yates samples a uniform distribution over permutations and is therefor capable of producing any permutation, so you can sort any array in linear time using Fisher-Yates with its RNG replaced by a appropriate oracle. (So the complexity of sorting a array mostly reduces to the complexity of determining which permutation it's in relative to a sorted version.)