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Friday, June 02, 2006

Sort-in-Short-to-sort-the-unsortable

Repeat it three times.
Ok! This can be a new tongue teaser. But this post is more related to the sorting techniques used in computational data structures.

Topic: Data Structures

Let’s Begin!

Why do we need sorting?
Sorting means arranging the similar things in some order. We arrange books, we arrange files, we arrange even our cold-drink cans. The basic purpose of arranging anything is to search and retrieve it fast. Imagine a library where ten of thousands of books r kept in random order. It will take days or maybe months to locate a book.

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