A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

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Abstract: In many real-world applications, sorting is a crucial data structure. Sorting algorithms are methods for rearranging a collection of unsorted items into a desired format or order. A lot of ...

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