Sorting n Objects with a k-Sorter

  • Authors:
  • R. Beigel;J. Gill

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

A k-sorter is a device that sorts k objects in unit time. The complexity of an algorithm that uses a k-sorter is defined as the number of applications of the k-sorter. In this measure, the complexity of sorting n objects is between n log n/k log k and 4n log n/k log k, up to first-order terms in n and k.