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- From: scot@moosilauke.dartmouth.edu (Scot Drysdale)
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- Subject: A sorting Exercise
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.184708.352@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 18:47:08 GMT
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- The question about sorting a sequence on a closed loop with every crossing
- labeled is called Jordan Sorting (from the Jordan Curve theorem, I assume).
- It can be done in linear time. See
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- K. Hoffman, K. Mehlhorn, P. Rosenstiehl, and R. E. Tarjan, "Sorting
- Jordan Sequences in Linear Time," Proc. Symp. Computational Geometry,
- pp. 196-203 (1985).
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- It was to appear in Information and Control in 1986, but I don't have a
- reference.
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- Scot Drysdale
- Dartmouth College
- scot.drysdale@dartmouth.edu
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