# 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

**Wikidata**: [Q646477](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q646477)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_network)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/sorting-network


## References

1. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and searching, 3rd edition
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
3. Quora
4. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)