Shrink Factor
The shrink factor has a great effect on the efficiency of comb sort. In the original article, the author suggested . A value too small slows the algorithm down because more comparisons must be made, whereas a value too large means that no comparisons will be made. Text describes an improvement to comb sort using the base value as the shrink factor (where is the golden ratio). It also contains a pseudocode implementation with a pre-defined gap table.
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