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Sleepsort is like a hash-based sort using sleep(x) instead of a hash function h(x).

You can see more here: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~siff/CS367/Notes/sorting.html

The function h(x) places the item ordered directly into a table, instead of waiting x timesteps.

The optimal choice of h(x), x ∈ X, is a bounded monotonic function that inverts the distribution of X, so that h(x) is uniformly distributed. It preserves the order and spreads h(x) evenly in the hash-space.




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