• In computer science, partial sorting is a relaxed variant of the sorting problem. Total sorting is the problem of returning a list of items such that its...
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  • constructing it. Topological sorting has many applications, especially in ranking problems such as feedback arc set. Topological sorting is also possible when...
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    sorted lists. Sorting is also often useful for canonicalizing data and for producing human-readable output. Formally, the output of any sorting algorithm...
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  • merge sort for in-place stable sorting and regular merge sort for stable sorting with additional memory. Partial sorting is implemented by partial_sort, which...
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    Insertion sort is a simple sorting algorithm that builds the final sorted array (or list) one item at a time by comparisons. It is much less efficient...
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  • are to be sorted, although it can slow down sorting significantly. For example, Microsoft Windows does this when sorting file names. Sorting decimals properly...
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    science, merge sort (also commonly spelled as mergesort and as merge-sort) is an efficient, general-purpose, and comparison-based sorting algorithm. Most...
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    order theory, a partial order on a set is an arrangement such that, for certain pairs of elements, one precedes the other. The word partial is used to indicate...
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    hydrocyclone, or via wet float-sink method. These approaches provide partial sorting, as some polymers have similar density. Polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene...
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    Quicksort (redirect from Quick sort)
    1961. It is still a commonly used algorithm for sorting. Overall, it is slightly faster than merge sort and heapsort for randomized data, particularly...
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    different sorting algorithm, or by recursively applying the bucket sorting algorithm. It is a distribution sort, a generalization of pigeonhole sort that allows...
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  • of comparison sorting problems was considered by Fredman in 1976, among them the problem of comparison sorting a set X when the sorted order of X is known...
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  • This is a partial list of notable puzzle video games, sorted by general category. Tile-matching video games are a type of puzzle video game where the player...
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  • 9999. This date ordering makes computerized sorting of dates easier by avoiding the need for a separate sorting algorithm. The monoid of words over an alphabet...
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  • obtained after sorting can be used for a variety of applications including research, diagnosis, and therapy. Methods of cell sorting fall into two major...
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  • basis of efficient algorithms for many problems, such as sorting (e.g., quicksort, merge sort), multiplying large numbers (e.g., the Karatsuba algorithm)...
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  • In combinatorial mathematics, a partial permutation, or sequence without repetition, on a finite set S is a bijection between two specified subsets of...
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  • operates on the elements of a sequence. Algorithms like sort, partial_sort, nth_element and all sorted containers use a binary predicate that must provide...
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  • (including ethnic Albanians and people of full or partial Albanian ancestry) who are famous or notable, sorted by occupation and alphabetically. Dhimitër Frëngu...
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  • number, ordered by year of discovery. The column headings may be clicked to sort the table alphabetically, by decimal value, or by set. Explanations of the...
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  • (ethnic Albanian people from Kosovo or people of full or partial Kosovar Albanian ancestry), sorted by occupation and name: Idriz Seferi - nationalist guerrilla...
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  • of fundamental importance in the analysis of algorithms, especially of sorting algorithms, which operate on random permutations. Suppose, for example...
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    Signature Piece for Hospice”, May 26, 2005 A&M p. 3 North Shore Sunday, “A Sort of Homecoming”, Art Section, May 27, 2005 Robert’s Snow by Grace Lin, Viking/Penguin...
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  • The following is a partial list of parks in Shenzhen, China, sorted in alphabetical order. List of lakes and reservoirs in Shenzhen "Pick of the Parks...
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    drafting of a handover protocol. The entire operation of identification, sorting, and delivery of the 1,443 crates took place between June 19 and June 27...
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    Section 22.4, Topological sort, pp. 549–552. Jungnickel (2012), pp. 50–51. For depth-first search based topological sorting algorithm, this validity check...
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    punishment required to cleanse the soul from attachment to anything but God) or partial (remits only part of the temporal punishment, i.e. cleansing, due to sin)...
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  • partition partition_copy stable_partition Sorts or partially sorts a range in-place sort partial sort stable_sort nth_element Populates a given range without...
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  • was in control. Everything that went out up front was him. He was a bit sort of Mad Professor. He was just into what we were doing, and in the early days...
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  • "pushed up"), resulting in the stream of elements coming out sorted in ascending order. Sorting input arrays of larger size (N > P) than the number of processing...
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