Alewife (or kyack). In Atlantic Canada it is known as the gaspereau, from the Acadian French word "gasparot", first mentioned by Nicolas Denys. William Francis Ganong, New Brunswick biologist and historian, wrote: Gaspereau, or Gasparot. Name of a common salt-water fish of Acadia (also called alewife), first used, so far as I can find, by Denys in 1672. Nowhere can I find any clue to its origin. It seems not to be Indian. Acadians named two rivers after the fish, the Gaspereau River in Nova Scotia and the Gaspereaux River in New Brunswick. In eastern Massachusetts, Alewife Brook flows through Arlington,
Block sort Block sort Block sort, or block merge sort, is a sorting algorithm combining at least two merge operations with an insertion sort to arrive at in-place stable sorting. It gets its name from the observation that merging two sorted lists, and , is equivalent to breaking into evenly sized "blocks", inserting each block into under special rules, and merging pairs. One practical algorithm for O(log n) in place merging was proposed by Pok-Son Kim and Arne Kutzner in 2008. The outer loop of block sort is identical to a bottom-up merge sort, where each "level" of the sort merges pairs