Sorting socks can be sped up using science, researchers have claimed. Scientists said the frustrating and dull task of pairing socks can be made much quicker and more effective by using an algorithm.

Radix sort is a non-comparison based sorting algorithm with a wide range of applications. Although often used for integers, it can also be used for sorting words alphabetically. The algorithm splits a ...

A language that's data-intensive naturally should have a way to dig into the data effectively. Here's a look at some of the R functions for searching and sorting through it all. Searching and sorting ...