Fast Sorting of Weyl Sequences Using Comparisons

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Ellis, Martin. H
Steele, John M
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An algorithm is given which makes only $O(\log n)$ comparisons, and which will determine the ordering of the uniformly distributed (pseudo random) Weyl sequences given by ${ (k\alpha )\bmod 1:1 \leqq k \leqq n} $, where $\alpha $ is an unspecified irrational number. This result is shown to be best possible in the sense that no algorithm can perform the same task with fewer than $ \Omega (\log n)$ comparisons.

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1981-02-01
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SIAM Journal on Computing
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