In this video, you’ll learn how to sort names by last name in Excel, even when first and last names are in the same cell. We walk through simple methods using built-in Excel tools to organize your ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

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 ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a 2-element insertion sort algorithm, an improved algorithm on the direct insertion sort, gives the algorithm design idea and the description in C. After analyzes ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...