Shellsort

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Shell +‎ sort, after Douglas Shell, who published the first version in 1959.

Noun[edit]

Shellsort (uncountable)

  1. (computing theory) A sorting algorithm that starts by sorting pairs of elements that are far apart from each other, then progressively reduces the gap between elements to be compared.

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