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 ...

Abstract: In this era of fast technological advancement, managing data is a major problem in the field of computer science. Many algorithms are developed to handle this task in which sorting of data ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

* - Swap 4 and 3. The 2nd level becomes [3,4]. * - Swap 7 and 5. The 3rd level becomes [5,6,8,7]. * - Swap 8 and 7. The 3rd level becomes [5,6,7,8]. * We used 3 operations so return 3. * It can be ...