Questions tagged [sorting]
Sorting is the process of applying some order to a collection of items.
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Sorting CSV table in Powershell
I'm wondering if some PS gurus can advise on whether my method for sorting and recombining some data fields by using an array of PSCustomObjects is as efficient as it might be.
I'm importing a CSV ...
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Java 8 Stream, How to get Top N count?
I need your advice to simplify this code below. I have a player list with an ID of the games won. I want to extract the 2 best players from this list (the 2 players who have a better amount of match ...
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logical error in using compare() in C++ [closed]
To keep the post short, here is the minimal information that you need to understand the code. The program is expected to read in words from command line and output individual words(spaces seperate ...
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Find the intervals which have a non-empty intersection with a given interval
The problem is the following: I have a list intervals which consists of tuples of the form (start, end) [with ...
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Deficient Numbers
I have found the following interesting challenge on the web:
Deficient Numbers
A number is considered deficient if the sum of its factors is less than twice that number.
For example: 10 is a
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Sort characters in a Python string by frequency
I wrote a solution to the leetcode problem Sort characters by frequency and the solution passes 34/35 test cases. On the last test case, there is a "time limit exceeded" error with an input string of ...
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ContactsList implementation in Java
I created a ContactsList class in Java that holds Person objects. I consider this is a side project for my GitHub profile. Any ...
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Sort multidimensional array based on another one containg the desired order
I have an array like this:
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Sorting three ways
I have implemented function templates that take a begin and end iterator as well as an optional comparator for user-defined types. It was my intention to mimic the usage of ...
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React widget to display, sort and search remote data
I've created a React widget that pulls data on crypto-token pairs from a remote API and makes that data sortable by headers and searchable.
You can view a demo of it here.
Is this a maintainable way ...
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C++2a comparison-based topological sort algorithm
Here's my attempt at a C++2a Standard Library–friendly "topological sort" algorithm. There are several areas of interest here:
The algorithm is comparison-based and in-place, just like ...
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Minimum swaps algorithm terminated due to timeout
I have been trying to solve this question.
Given an unordered array consisting of consecutive integers [1, 2, 3, …, n], find the minimum number of two-element swaps to sort the array.
I was able ...
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Sort an array of 0s, 1s and 2s in Java
Write a program to sort an array of 0's,1's and 2's in ascending
order.
Input:
The first line contains an integer 'T' denoting the total number of
test cases. In each test cases, First ...
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Sort digits in Python
Given an integer, sort the digits in ascending order and return the
new integer.
Ignore leading zeros.
Parameters:
Input: num {Integer}
Output: {Integer}
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Sorting software version list using Python 2.7 (no modules)
I am participating in a challenge and one of the challenges was to write a script to sort a list of software versions (ex: 1.0, 1.3.2, 12, 1.3.0). Here is the my solution:
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Is there a better way to sort this items?
I already have my code working, but I believe that could be improved.
This is basically the main part, where I re-order a list of items;
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Counting sort in C, revised
This is a revised follow-up to this question.
I have implemented most of the suggestions in the accepted answer. I am interested to see what I could improve in my code and what I could do to make it ...
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Counting sort in C
EDIT: I have posted a follow-up to this question.
I have implemented counting sort in C. This program takes its input as integers from command line arguments, sorts the integers with counting sort, ...
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Sort string's characters into alphabetic order
Any improvements that I can make with this code?
Also, is there another way to convert a vector to a string variable without using a for ranged-based loop? From the posts I've seen for converting, I ...
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C++ code to read, sort, and write data
I had written code in C++ to create transformation filters to get input, sort (custom_sorting and existing sorting routine) and write the output to stdin and file. When I presented it to my teacher, ...
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Checking whether two lists contain the same elements
I have two lists of numbers:
$$\{i_1, i_2, i_3,i_4\}$$ and $$\{j_1,j_2,j_3,j_4\}$$
The problem I want to solve is: Inside a loop, if the following two conditions are satisfied, then it will do ...
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Mergesort in Python optimization
I am currently writing mergesort in Python and have implemented it to work. I have noticed, though, that it is very slow compared to the standard sorted() method. I understand it will always be faster ...
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Implementing and benchmarking Radix Sort on unsigned integers
Introduction
I implemented a restricted version of the sorting algorithm, the one that works only with unsigned integers. I wanted to try using ...
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Print strings in order with dynamic arrays
I accomplished the following task to practice allocating on the heap.
reading words from stdin
sorting them in lexicographical order
printing the sorted words
To accomplish this is allocate the size ...
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Sort a linked-list with only three distinct values
I am trying to solve this problem. The problem is to sort a linked list containing only 0s, 1s and 2s by changing their links.
Sort a linked list of 0s, 1s and 2s by changing links Given a linked
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Badminton doubles automatic game-making GUI (Python 3, Tkinter)
This is a program I created for my social badminton club. I've used it for the last few weeks and it's worked fairly well so far. The full code is on Github here.
We operate with three courts (each ...
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Implementation of counting sort
I'm trying to learn more about counting sort and I just implemented the example given in CLRS, my question is: How can I improve this code?
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Milking order compatible with maximum number of observations
I'm using some old USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) problems to help teach me. This is the "Milking order" problem:
Farmer John has \$N\$ cows (\$1≤N≤10^5\$), numbered \$1…N\$. He has made \$M\$ ...
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BubbleSort - checking if bubblesort is decreasing the iterations through the array
What I'm hoping my code is doing is instead of making 99 comparisons on every pass of a 100 element array, it will now make 98 comparisons on the second pass, 97 on the third pass and so on and thus ...
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Mergesort linked list in C++
My teacher gave us an exercise. We have to sort as quickly as possible. The fastest one gets a reward. On my own system, I am sorting 125000 words within 1.2 seconds. On my teacher's system that is 0....
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Check whether array is sorted recursively
I'm trying to implement isSorted method checking whether given array is sorted recursively. I've written two types, one is similar to merge sort logic, the another ...
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Pancake sort inteview using java
Given an array of integers arr:
Write a function flip(arr, k) that reverses the order of the first k elements in the array <...
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Compares two Log Lines
I am trying to compare two Log lines based on some conditions, in order to sort them:
Code:
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Multi-threaded in-place Mergesort on Java
What is an efficient way to implement the Mergesort algorithm in Java such that it meets the following criteria:
Must be multi-threaded.
Must retain the Mergesort time complexities.
Must be in-place ...
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compareTo method for names
I'm implementing the compareTo method to set the natural order of an object. My object has three fields that make up a name. fName, lName, middleInitial. The natural ordering should be by lName, fName,...
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Selection and Bubble sorts
Just to enjoy, I want to implement selection and bubble sorts algorithms without looking any implementation by my own efforts 💪💪. Is there any redundant/lack part(s)? After improved their ...
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Angular, sort objects by their keys
I had to sort a list of objects - {name:'name', email:'email} by their keys, ex. by email, so they all be rendered with ...
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Pancake sort interview with Python
I got asked this question during my interview. You can find information about this question here.
Pancake Sort
Given an array of integers arr:
Write a function flip(arr, k) that reverses ...
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Composable by-member comparison
Motivation
Quite often, I find myself creating types that must be compared memberwise. For example, consider this simple Person:
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Sorting by checking 2 distance away elements in a list, and check the method's accuracy
This code works as follows :
It accepts number of test case T. For each test case, it accepts length of sequence of integers N and the sequence (or list) itself L.
The goal is to sort the list by ...
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Shortest distance for points in a plane
I was wondering how I can make this code more pythonic. More professonal-looking and more readable. The code runs perfectly fine.
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Sorting items in list based on position
I wrote code which sorts items, based on parameters (IconConfiguration). I have a map of items which have index and item so basically a predefined list on which index item should be, and maxPositions ...
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Optimizing priority queue streaming algorithm in C++
This is a sorting algorithm that I wrote for finding the maximum \$n\$ elements at any time in a stream of IDs and integers with unknown length. I primarily do my coding in Python, so I'm not too ...
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Mergesort, instrumented for counting reads and writes
I have just finished an implementation of mergesort, and I was wondering if I can further reduce the amount of reads and writes. I have looked at it for a while, and to my eyes, I cannot see anything ...
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Nearest Neighbor Algorithm (general nearest, forward-nearest, or backward-nearest)
I am trying to write an algorithm that can find user-specified nearest neighbors. By user-specified, I mean that the user can specify whether it's a general nearest neighbor, a forward-nearest ...
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Bubble sort using user inputted numbers and size in MIPS assembly
I made this code to take user input, making a specific-sized array and printing user-inputted numbers after being sorted. It works well but I was wondering if there was a way to "shrink" it down. It ...
