In their book Algorithms to Live By ... and splitting each of these further to make sorting simple. Professor Christian, of the University of California, Berkeley, told BBC Radio 4’s More ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing ... “It’s as if you used cryptography to make your algorithm faster,” he said. “Which just seems kind of strange.” Helen Xu ...

Computations involve arithmetic, decision-making and repetition ... you can ponder what sort of complex set of algorithms is behind the scenes.

Like all complicated problems, there are many solutions that can achieve the same results, and one sort algorithm can re-sequence data faster than another. In the early 1960s, when magnetic tape ...

The algorithm addresses something called the library sorting problem (more formally ... you might have to move every book on the shelf to make room for it. That would be a time-consuming operation.

In the former, a sorting algorithm repeatedly steps through a ... Uber has already taken serious steps towards making autonomous ride-hailing a mainstream option. The company already works with ...