The Simplest Sorting Algorithm (You’ve Never Heard Of)

Опубликовано: 23 Март 2026
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We know this beautiful algorithm from the recent preprint by Stanley P. Y. Fung:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.01111.pdf

However, it turns out that other people stumbled across it multiple times, see e.g. the discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

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Attributions:

To make this video, we used manim, a Python library: https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/

The color palette we use:
https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/

Thumbnail contains this version of Raphael’s angels
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Music: Messiah by Händel
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