Some Discourse on Sorting

Sorting means to arrange the given list of data in any particular form or order. Generally sorting is done on the basis of numerical order and alphabetical or lexicographical order. Here we shall be discussing only the numerical order. In Computer Science, sorting has always been given special attention and interest because it is a vital part of many other fundamental processes. Still now, research is going on to improve the sorting techniques and numerous algorithms have been presented for this purpose. Some basic ones which are commonly used are selection sort, bubble sort, insertion sort, merge sort, shell sort, quick sort, etc.