Sorting

Arranging the elements of any array (or some key fields in them) into an ascending or descending order is called sorting. Since sorting is a field of coputer science that has been studied a lot, there are dozens of sorting algorithms available. Different algorithms and their efficiency is usually covered on the course Utilization of Data Structures. Pseudocode for these algorithms can be found in the literature. Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein: Introduction to Algorithms for instance. An efficient function for sorting data can often be found in one of the libraries.

Reference: wikipedia, sorting-algorithm, smith

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