Sorting algorithms are a common exercise for new programmers, and for good reason: they introduce many programming fundamentals at once, including loops and conditionals, arrays and lists, comparisons ...

So-called 'external memory' sorting algorithms generally look very different from in-core algorithms. IIRC, the efficient way involves setting up a 'funnel' of input data streams, and writing out ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...