Merge Phase
Use an Ideal Merge to merge the piles created in Phase I. Output to the output linked list or data stream. Ideal Merge is a merge algorithm Art S. Kagel believes he also invented which can be shown to be the best possible merge of sorted sinks (queues). Algorithm follows.
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