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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: More on the =?iso-8859-13?q?=B4Parallel_Sort=A1?= Data Sorting
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On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:22:43 -0700, Austin Obyrne wrote:

> I ... would like to point out that “Counting “ or “Count sort”
> was invented in 1954.
> 
> I quote from Wikipedia,
> 
> “Although radix sorting itself dates back far longer, counting sort, and
> its application to radix sorting, were both invented by Harold H. Seward
> in 1954.”  - Unquote
> 
> Given the state of progress in computer development at that time this
> invention must surely have been more of a longhand algorithm than a
> computer driven program concept.

What do you mean by this? Certainly not that he couldn't have implemented 
it and run it on real hardware. Wikipedia places him at MIT where he had 
access to a computer for three years by 1954.

- Brian