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Knuth discusses this in Vol 3 Sorting and Searching ... we mean "collate" by sorting. Unfortunately I don't have that volume at hand to quote. Anybody?
by Isamu 8y ago
Knuth discusses this in Vol 3 Sorting and Searching ... we mean "collate" by sorting. Unfortunately I don't have that volume at hand to quote. Anybody?
- sp332 8y ago> 5.2.4 Sorting by Merging > Merging (or collating) means the combination of two or more ordered files into a single ordered file. So it's not quite the same idea.