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What you expect the application to do

 

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The kind of data you work with

 

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The computing resources you have available

The point is that the capability to sort data into whatever form an application 

needs to accomplish a task makes the world run, and this capability is changing 

how the world works.

Some businesses today thrive as a result of the sort algorithm. For example, con-

sider the fact that Google exists because it helps people find things, and this abil-

ity resides substantially in the capability to sort data to make it readily accessible. 

Consider just how hard it would be to find an item on Amazon without the sort 

routine. Even that recipe application on your computer at home relies heavily on 

sort routines to keep the data it contains in order. In fact, it probably wouldn’t be 

too much of a stretch to say that any substantial application relies heavily on sort 

routines.

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