Java Program to Perform Stooge Sort

This is a java program to implement Stooge sort algorithm.

Here is the source code of the Java Program to Perform Stooge Sort. The Java program is successfully compiled and run on a Windows system. The program output is also shown below.

//This is a java program to sort numbers using Stooge Sort
import java.util.Random;
  
public class Stooge_Sort 
{
  
    public static int N = 20;
    public static int[] sequence = new int[N];
  
    public static int[] stoogeSort(int[] L, int i, int j) 
    {
        if (L[j] < L[i]) 
        {
            int swap = L[i];
            L[i] = L[j];
            L[j] = swap;
        }
        if ((j - i + 1) >= 3) 
        {
            int t = (j - i + 1) / 3;
            stoogeSort(L, i, j - t);
            stoogeSort(L, i + t, j);
            stoogeSort(L, i, j - t);
        }
        return L;
    }
  
    public static void printSequence(int[] sorted_sequence) 
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < sorted_sequence.length; i++)
            System.out.print(sorted_sequence[i] + " ");
    }
  
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        Random random = new Random();
        System.out
                .println("Sorting of randomly generated numbers using STOOGE SORT");
  
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
            sequence[i] = Math.abs(random.nextInt(1000));
  
        System.out.println("\nOriginal Sequence: ");
        printSequence(sequence);
  
        System.out.println("\nSorted Sequence: ");
        printSequence(stoogeSort(sequence, 0, sequence.length - 1));
    }
}

Output:

$ javac Stooge_Sort.java
$ java Stooge_Sort
  
Sorting of randomly generated numbers using STOOGE SORT
  
Original Sequence: 
213 931 260 34 184 706 346 849 279 918 781 242 995 2 187 378 634 965 138 843
Sorted Sequence: 
2 34 138 184 187 213 242 260 279 346 378 634 706 781 843 849 918 931 965 995