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Battle of the algorithms

Marcus du Sautoy pits two sorting algorithms against each other: 鈥淏ubble Sort鈥 and 鈥淢erge Sort鈥. He wants to show what effect different methods of ordering can have on the speed in which you can sort large volumes of data.

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