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JavaScript/Sorts/StoogeSort.js
Roland Hummel 86d333ee94 feat: Test running overhaul, switch to Prettier & reformat everything (#1407)
* chore: Switch to Node 20 + Vitest

* chore: migrate to vitest mock functions

* chore: code style (switch to prettier)

* test: re-enable long-running test

Seems the switch to Node 20 and Vitest has vastly improved the code's and / or the test's runtime!

see #1193

* chore: code style

* chore: fix failing tests

* Updated Documentation in README.md

* Update contribution guidelines to state usage of Prettier

* fix: set prettier printWidth back to 80

* chore: apply updated code style automatically

* fix: set prettier line endings to lf again

* chore: apply updated code style automatically

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/*
* Stooge Sort sorts an array based on divide and conquer principle
* note the exceptionally bad time complexity
* more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stooge_sort
*
*/
export function stoogeSort(items, leftEnd, rightEnd) {
if (items[rightEnd - 1] < items[leftEnd]) {
const temp = items[leftEnd]
items[leftEnd] = items[rightEnd - 1]
items[rightEnd - 1] = temp
}
const length = rightEnd - leftEnd
if (length > 2) {
const third = Math.floor(length / 3)
stoogeSort(items, leftEnd, rightEnd - third)
stoogeSort(items, leftEnd + third, rightEnd)
stoogeSort(items, leftEnd, rightEnd - third)
}
return items
}