gnome sort

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Etymology[edit]

Named by Dutch computer scientist Dick Grune, based on a metaphor of a gnome walking along a line of flowerpots in order to sort them.

Noun[edit]

gnome sort (plural gnome sorts)

  1. (computing theory) A variation of the insertion sort that does not use nested loops.