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title: "What is Sorting?"  
description: "What is Sorting?"  
author: "Shrikant Mishra"  
published: 2019-05-31  
updated: 2020-09-21  
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category: "c#"  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is Sorting?

Sorting is nothing but, arranging elements in the order we want. You might have come across this in your school or college days. Like arranging numbers from smaller to greater (ascending) or from greater to smaller (descending) is what we saw till now and is called sorting.

## Answers

### Answer by Shrikant Mishra

Sorting is nothing but, arranging elements in the order we want. You might have come across this in your school or college days. Like arranging numbers from smaller to greater (ascending) or from greater to smaller (descending) is what we saw till now and is called sorting.


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