sorting algorithm


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Noun1.sorting algorithm - an algorithm for sorting a list
algorithm, algorithmic program, algorithmic rule - a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem
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The app, which was developed by CMU-Q students, uses a smart sorting algorithm that manages and sorts tasks for busy students, and uses advanced machine learning to find and retrieve answers to questions using speech recognition.
The app, which was developed by CMU-Q students Sideeg Hassan, Ammar Karkour, Abdullah Shaar and Shaden Shaar, uses a smart sorting algorithm that manages and sorts tasks for busy students, and uses advanced machine learning to find and retrieve answers to questions using speech recognition.
As the analyses in Section 4 reveal, BWT encoding speed depends on the string sorting algorithm, and traditional BWT encoding has the time complexity O([N.sup.2]lbN).
High performance comparison-based sorting algorithm on many-core GPUs.
Non-dominated sorting algorithm II (NSGA-II) algorithm, suggested in 2000 by Deb and his colleagues (Deb et al.
There's no listed standard frames/second/Watt figure for conventional GPUs using the same sorting algorithm and dataset.
Python's sort happens to implement an excellent sorting algorithm that was invented for Python itself.
The empirical results show that the fastest sorting algorithm is Quicksort, followed by Insertsort, then by Bubblesort.