(algorithm)
Definition: (no definition here, yet, but you can help.)
Note: It is "a randomized parallel sorting algorithm, similar in a lot of ways to quicksort with lots of pivots used simultaneously. -- Steve Tate, srt@cs.unt.edu, comp.theory, 25 Feb 2000.
J. H. Reif and L. G. Valiant, A logarithmic time sort for linear size networks, Proc. 15th Annual STOC, pages 10-16, 1983.
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Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 24 May 2004. (accessed TODAY)
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