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From TFA:

The title is an homage to Eugene Wigner's 1960 paper "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".

Agreed. Effectiveness would imply that some algorithms are more likely to sort the list correctly than others, or they sort a higher percentage of elements. Efficiency is about factors external to the correctness

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" is one of those titles that gets imitated a lot for some reason. Maybe even more than "Goto Considered Harmful".

Coming next: “What we talk about when we talk about modern sort algorithms”

or "we need to talk about what we talk about when we talk about the unreasonable effectiveness of title memes are all you need considered harmful"

"Optimize your sorts with this one weird trick."

"What they don't want you to know about sorting."

Ascending is all you need.