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 ...

Sorting is a common operation, and there are dozens of algorithms we can use to sort a vector or array. Of course, sorting requires that elements in the underlying data structure are comparable.

So here you are, taking a course on data structures and algorithms. But what is a “data structure”? What is an “algorithm”? The textbook gives these definitions: “An algorithm is a recipe for ...

This document explains and verifies the design goals for an efficient, generic and robust stable sort implementation called driftsort by Orson Peters and Lukas Bergdoll (source code). TL;DR: driftsort ...

Abstract: Every algorithm has its own best-case as well as its worst-case scenario, so it is difficult to determine the best sorting algorithm just by its Big-O. Not only that, the amount of memory ...

Introduction: One of the key problems occurring in neuroinformatics today is the ability to properly extract and sort different spike trains from extracellular recordings. Whilst the spike detection ...

When you're dealing with data, sorting is a very common task. While [sorting algorithms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm) are well-understood, they ...