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Line 44: ==K-way merging== {{Merge from\|K-way merge algorithm \|discuss=Talk:Merge algorithm#Merge K-way merge algorithm article into this one \|date=December 2017 \|section=yes}} {{Main\|K-way merge algorithm}} {{mvar\|k}}-way merging generalizes binary merging to an arbitrary number {{mvar\|k}} of sorted input lists. Applications of {{mvar\|k}}-way merging arise in various sorting algorithms, including [[patience sorting]]<ref name="Chandramouli">{{Cite conference \|last1=Chandramouli \|first1=Badrish \|last2=Goldstein \|first2=Jonathan \|title=Patience is a Virtue: Revisiting Merge and Sort on Modern Processors \|conference=SIGMOD/PODS \|year=2014}}</ref> and an [[external sorting]] algorithm that divides its input into {{math\|''k'' {{=}} {{sfrac\|1\|''M''}} − 1}} blocks that fit in memory, sorts these one by one, then merges these blocks.{{r\|toolbox}}{{rp\|119–120}}

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