On 08/07/2010 01:57 AM, bearophile wrote:
Peter Alexander:Yeah, partition has always meant that to me as well.Probably you come from a quite different part of computer science (The example I have shown from Mathematica is not the only one). What are the usages of that algorithm, beside being used in the QuickSort?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_algorithm for example. Andrei