I'm trying to write a shellsort on Node.js like on the book Algorithms, 4th ed. Sedgewick, Wayne. There all the examples written on Java.
Here is my module:
"use strict";
module.exports = (function() {
function sort(array) {
let size = array.length;
let h = 1;
while(h < size/3) {
h = h * 3 + 1;
}
while(h >= 1) {
for(let i = h; i < size; i++) {
for(let j = i; j >= h && less(array, j, j-h); j = j-h) {
exch(array, j, j-h);
}
}
h = h/3;
}
}
function less(array, i, min) {
return array[i] < array[min];
}
function exch(array, i, min) {
let temp = array[i];
array[i] = array[min];
array[min] = temp;
}
return {
sort: sort
};
})();
I use mocha and chai for testing with this function:
function isSorted(array) {
for(let i = 1, size = array.length; i < size; i++) {
if (array[i] < array[i-1]) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
and shell sort not working: mocha test screenshot
Your h
may become a floating point number if you use h = h / 3
. Try h = Math.floor(h / 3);
instead.