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Date table sorting is used to correctly sort and display dates in a sortable table (see Help:Sortable tables). What it solves Dates in their customary formats, if simply treated as alphanumeric text strings, sort in nonsensical ways:
On 5 January 1975, the 12-bit field that had been used for dates in the TOPS-10 operating system for DEC PDP-10 computers overflowed, in a bug known as "DATE75". The field value was calculated by taking the number of years since 1964, multiplying by 12, adding the number of months since January, multiplying by 31, and adding the number of days since the start of the month; putting 2 12 − 1 ...
Sorted arrays are the most space-efficient data structure with the best locality of reference for sequentially stored data. [citation needed]Elements within a sorted array are found using a binary search, in O(log n); thus sorted arrays are suited for cases when one needs to be able to look up elements quickly, e.g. as a set or multiset data structure.
Radix sort is an algorithm that sorts numbers by processing individual digits. n numbers consisting of k digits each are sorted in O(n · k) time. Radix sort can process digits of each number either starting from the least significant digit (LSD) or starting from the most significant digit (MSD). The LSD algorithm first sorts the list by the ...
Bubble sort, sometimes referred to as sinking sort, is a simple sorting algorithm that repeatedly steps through the input list element by element, comparing the current element with the one after it, swapping their values if needed. These passes through the list are repeated until no swaps have to be performed during a pass, meaning that the ...
In computer science, counting sort is an algorithm for sorting a collection of objects according to keys that are small positive integers; that is, it is an integer sorting algorithm. It operates by counting the number of objects that possess distinct key values, and applying prefix sum on those counts to determine the positions of each key ...
Typically, it is assumed that w ≥ log 2 (max(n, K)); that is, that machine words are large enough to represent an index into the sequence of input data, and also large enough to represent a single key. [2] Integer sorting algorithms are usually designed to work in either the pointer machine or random access machine models of computing. The ...
A self-organizing list is a list that reorders its elements based on some self-organizing heuristic to improve average access time.The aim of a self-organizing list is to improve efficiency of linear search by moving more frequently accessed items towards the head of the list.