Sorting

  • Authors:
  • Edwin D. Reilly

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In computing, sorting is the process of rearranging an initially unordered sequence of records until they are ordered with respect to all of or that part of each record designated as its key. Usually, the desired result is that the records be placed in ascending order (smallest key first), but any sorting algorithm capable of placing records in ascending order can be easily modified to produce a sequence of records in descending order.