gnome sort

noun

Etymology

Named by Dutch computer scientist Dick Grune, based on a metaphor of a gnome walking along a line of flowerpots in order to sort them.

Definitions

  1. A variation of the insertion sort that does not use nested loops.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gnome sort. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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