smoothsort

English

Etymology

smooth +‎ sort

Noun

smoothsort (uncountable)

  1. (computing theory) A sorting algorithm based on heapsort but using the Leonardo numbers, tending to perform better than heapsort in cases where the items to be sorted are already partially sorted.
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