sorting network

abstract network that sorts a fixed number of values, made of wires carrying values and comparators connecting pairs of wires, swapping wrongly ordered pairs of values
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sorting network

Summary

sorting network ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (106 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • sorting network's image is recorded as SimpleSortingNetwork2.svg[2].
  • sorting network's image is recorded as Six-wire-pyramid-sorting-network.svg[3].
  • sorting network's subclass of is recorded as sorting algorithm[4].
  • sorting network's has use is recorded as sorting algorithm[5].
  • sorting network's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1954-00-00T00:00:00Z[6].
  • sorting network's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02q7jn[7].
  • sorting network's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Ajtai-Komlos-Szemeredi-sorting-network[8].
  • sorting network's uses is recorded as parallel algorithm[9].
  • sorting network's Quora topic ID is recorded as Sorting-Network[10].
  • sorting network's schematic is recorded as SimpleSortingNetworkFullOperation.svg[11].
  • sorting network's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 64540648[12].
  • sorting network's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C64540648[13].

Why It Matters

sorting network ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (106 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and searching, 3rd edition. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_sorting-network_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{sorting network}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/sorting-network}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-01}}
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