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Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel Center for Physics and Chemistry of Living Systems, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, ...

A sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts the elements of a list in a certain order. While there are a large number of sorting algorithms, in practical implementations a few algorithms predominate ...