Quicksort

//ˈkwɪkˌsɔɹt//

"Quicksort" in a Sentence (2 examples)

Somewhat surprisingly, the average behaviour of quicksort is the same as the best behaviour.

1991, Maguire et al, Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications The first and last subsets are then recursively quicksorted.

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