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		stagger87 on Oct 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting... Did someone refer to it as a discovery? In fact, from the introduction in the article. > It is difficult to imagine that this algorithm was not discovered before, but we are unable to find any references to it.

NoGravitas on Oct 5, 2021 [–]

I expect it's "commonly rediscovered because it's so simple; rarely published because it's so obviously bad".

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