Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Quicksort is a well known algorithm for sorting, Professor Graham Hutton shows how it works and then how to implement it in just five lines of code!

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Professor Hutton is based at the University of Nottingham: people.cs.nott.ac.uk/pszgmh

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