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three-way merge sort

(algorithm)

Definition: A k-way merge sort which uses three input and three output streams.

See also two-way merge sort, merge sort, balanced merge sort.

Author: ASK


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Art S. Kagel, "three-way merge sort", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/threewaymsrt.html