Patience Sorting - History

History

According to D. Aldous and P. Diaconis, patience sorting was first recognized as an algorithm to compute the longest increasing subsequence length by Hammersley, and by A.S.C. Ross and independently Robert W. Floyd as a sorting algorithm. Initial analysis was done by Mallows.

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