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The Computer Journal 1958 1(2):71-77; doi:10.1093/comjnl/1.2.71
© 1958 by British Computer Society
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The Principles of Sorting

D. A. Bell

University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

A study of one or two specific problems in the application of electronic computers to clerical work has convinced the writer that sorting is one of the clerical processes for which electronic techniques are not yet adequately developed. The following notes seek first to analyse the process of sorting into general principles, which may be useful in the search for further practical solutions of the problem, and then to classify existing sorting techniques through their relationship to the general principles.


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