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#1 2011-04-16 04:32:28
- survival
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Frequency and percentage-Number sorter from least to greatest
Hello, is there a method to least to greatest sorting of numbers when figuring out frequency and percentage? There has to be a faster way without picking from a big table of numbers.
Thank you.
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#2 2011-04-16 05:23:15
- Bob
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Re: Frequency and percentage-Number sorter from least to greatest
hi survival,
How have you got the numbers? If they are in a digital format then, yes, a spreadsheet will re-order them and most modern calculators will too. There are also algorithms that can be used to sort them; the easiest to understand is called a bubble sort, which will probably to the job.
But if all you have is a paper list then 
no such method. You would have to do it the long way I fear.
Bob
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#3 2011-04-16 07:57:38
- John E. Franklin
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Re: Frequency and percentage-Number sorter from least to greatest
The heapsort is logarithmic. Bubblesort and Shellsort are Big-O squared.
The quicksort is logarthmic too I think. The heapsort was fun to program once I did
it in VisualBasic because it was faster than the built-in method provided by the
software collection.
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#4 2011-04-16 09:29:16
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Re: Frequency and percentage-Number sorter from least to greatest
Thanks, I guess I will go with the method of picking them out.
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#5 2011-04-16 09:39:34
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Re: Frequency and percentage-Number sorter from least to greatest
Post them over here and I will sort them for you.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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