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大连交通大学2016届本科生毕业设计（论文）外文翻译 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT- 15 - 外文原文 Simple Sorting Overview As soon as you create a significant database, youll probably think of reasons to sort it in various ways. You need to arrange names in alphabetical order, students by grade, customers by zip code, home sales by price, cities in order of increasing population, countries by GNP, stars by magnitude, and so on. Sorting data may also be a preliminary step to searching it. As a binary search, which can be applied only to sorted data, is much faster than a linear search. Sorting is so important and potential