name of a sorting algorithm

[Prasad, Ramit]

> 
for i in xrange (N-1):
    for j in xrange (i, N):
        if a[j] < a[i]:
            a[i], a[j] = a[j], a[i]
> It's what Wikipedia says a selection sort is: put the least element in [0], the least of the remaining elements in [1], etc.

If your only requirement to match to selection sort is the end result, then every sort would be selection sort. If you meant "put the least element in [0] in the first pass" then that would indeed be selection sort, but that is not what the above code does. The above code is bubble sort.

Ramit


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