[QuercusMax]

I think the first thing any article about Bloom filters should mention is that they were invented by a guy named Burton Bloom. They don't have anything to do with "blooming" of any sort.

Very similar with Shellsort, which was designed by Donald Shell.

[jszymborski]

I always thought it was called shell sort because it invoked the image of a shell game and the pointer was like a shell covering the array element!!

Thanks for the edification!!!