Hoare is the man who developed quicksort at the age of 26. Quicksort is an algorithm that repeatedly selects one random piece of data from randomly arranged data, sorts the data by whether it is ...

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Returning to England in 1960, he joined the computer firm Elliott Brothers, where one of his first tasks was to write an algorithm for a sorting method known as a “shell sort”. The story goes that he ...