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  2. Multi-key quicksort - Wikipedia

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    Multi-key quicksort, also known as three-way radix quicksort, [1] is an algorithm for sorting strings.This hybrid of quicksort and radix sort was originally suggested by P. Shackleton, as reported in one of C.A.R. Hoare's seminal papers on quicksort; [2]: 14 its modern incarnation was developed by Jon Bentley and Robert Sedgewick in the mid-1990s. [3]

  3. cat (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    cat is a standard Unix utility that reads files sequentially, writing them to standard output. The name is derived from its function to (con) cat enate files (from Latin catenare, "to chain"). [ 1 ][ 2 ] It has been ported to a number of operating systems. The other primary purpose of cat, aside from concatenation, is file printing — allowing ...

  4. Sorting algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Sorting algorithm. Merge sort. In computer science, a sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list into an order. The most frequently used orders are numerical order and lexicographical order, and either ascending or descending.

  5. Natural sort order - Wikipedia

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    In computing, natural sort order (or natural sorting) is the ordering of strings in alphabetical order, except that multi-digit numbers are treated atomically, i.e., as if they were a single character. Natural sort order has been promoted as being more human-friendly ("natural") than machine-oriented, pure alphabetical sort order.

  6. sort (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    sort (Unix) In computing, sort is a standard command line program of Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that prints the lines of its input or concatenation of all files listed in its argument list in sorted order. Sorting is done based on one or more sort keys extracted from each line of input.

  7. Insertion sort - Wikipedia

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    Insertion sort. Insertion sort is a simple sorting algorithm that builds the final sorted array (or list) one item at a time by comparisons. It is much less efficient on large lists than more advanced algorithms such as quicksort, heapsort, or merge sort. However, insertion sort provides several advantages:

  8. Levenshtein distance - Wikipedia

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    It is at least the absolute value of the difference of the sizes of the two strings. It is at most the length of the longer string. It is zero if and only if the strings are equal. If the strings have the same size, the Hamming distance is an upper bound on the Levenshtein distance. The Hamming distance is the number of positions at which the ...

  9. Rope (data structure) - Wikipedia

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    Rope (data structure) A simple rope built on the string of "Hello_my_name_is_Simon". In computer programming, a rope, or cord, is a data structure composed of smaller strings that is used to efficiently store and manipulate longer strings or entire texts. For example, a text editing program may use a rope to represent the text being edited, so ...