Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:19:20 -0500 Message-ID: <50270497.75F9@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:19:19 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: bubble sort References: <08700543-f80c-4635-b069-297c5d2291ec@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.221.61 X-Trace: sv3-wYQoSaIRT6H/EB4qH1kOBLnZagL123vPJDUM/BGkf6iPA+p0qZhryaUGxxDw6It8GYAiUR2Fe+flAyj!wBOTlBiLsOTrwDlYlllqSsnGfOZ6MApiUm2Q+I8ml3oheHcg/bPaWk/9qdQt36tJjAYSBEU/A+9k!NK0tcDFTOQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1518 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:2061 Mark F wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 06:01:15 +0000 (UTC), Ike Naar > wrote: > > > On 2012-08-11, bob wrote: > > > Can someone help me understand why bubble sort > > > is called bubble sort? > Shell sort Bubble sort was also named after the person who developed it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bubble -- pete