Fundamental Use

Once upon a time, most computer time was spent on sorting, and the majority of the rest on searching. I'd say thats probably close to true today, as even browsing the web is, at its most basic an act of searching. Seeing

Foreach

The "foreach" loop is a special case of the for loop, usually enacted on a linear container such as an array or a list, where for every iteration of the loop, some action is performed on a member of the container until that actio

qsort()

At a glance most would assume such a function would invoke the quicksort algorithm, and they would be right - most of the time. Indeed MANY different C standard libraries bull ahead and use quicksort with varying amount of optimization

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In the beginning the large majority of sort implementations were the more commonly known quadratic sorts: selection sort, insertion sort, and the omnipresent bubble sort. Radix sort was in use for the physic

Quicksort

In my previous article on quick sort I covered in detail the recursive implementation of the famous sorting algorithm. A downside of Quick sort is that it has the potential to encounter worst-case quadratic complexity, which means t