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Cascade merge sort

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ5048185 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cascade merge sort is similar to the polyphase merge sort but uses a simpler distribution. The merge is slower than a polyphase merge when there are fewer than six files, but faster when there are more than six.

Editorial summary

“Cascade merge sort” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cascade, merge and sort can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 38-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cascade, merge and sort.
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“Cascade merge sort” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cascade, merge and sort provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5048185. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cascade merge sort” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.