== Quote from Kevin Bealer ([email protected])'s article > (Non-software) people doing routine tasks often come up with better algorithms intuitively than my intuition expects them to. > I think a lot of people would do even better than insertion with a deck of > poker cards -- they might group cards by either suit or rank (or rank groups) (e.g. "Hmm, I'll make three piles of 1-5, 6-10, and J-A"), then order the "buckets", then stick these ordered sets back together. If you think about it, this is a lot like a radix sort or a multi-pivot cousin of the quick sort.
You mean a bucket sort? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_sort
