
Sorting Algorithm

This is a sorting algorithm.   It may be applied to a set of data in order to sort it.    
For comparing various sorts, see compare sorts.  
For other sorting algorithms,   see sorting algorithms,   or:

O(n logn) sorts
Heap sort |
Merge sort |
Patience sort |
Quick sort
O(n log2n) sorts
Shell Sort
O(n2) sorts
Bubble sort |
Cocktail sort |
Cocktail sort with shifting bounds |
Comb sort |
Cycle sort |
Gnome sort |
Insertion sort |
Selection sort |
Strand sort
other sorts
Bead sort |
Bogo sort |
Common sorted list |
Composite structures sort |
Custom comparator sort |
Counting sort |
Disjoint sublist sort |
External sort |
Jort sort |
Lexicographical sort |
Natural sorting |
Order by pair comparisons |
Order disjoint list items |
Order two numerical lists |
Object identifier (OID) sort |
Pancake sort |
Quickselect |
Permutation sort |
Radix sort |
Ranking methods |
Remove duplicate elements |
Sleep sort |
Stooge sort |
[Sort letters of a string] |
Three variable sort |
Topological sort |
Tree sort


Task

Bogosort a list of numbers.



Bogosort simply shuffles a collection randomly until it is sorted.

"Bogosort" is a perversely inefficient algorithm only used as an in-joke.

Its average run-time is   O(n!)   because the chance that any given shuffle of a set will end up in sorted order is about one in   n   factorial,   and the worst case is infinite since there's no guarantee that a random shuffling will ever produce a sorted sequence.

Its best case is   O(n)   since a single pass through the elements may suffice to order them.



Pseudocode:

while not InOrder(list) do
   Shuffle(list)
done



The Knuth shuffle may be used to implement the shuffle part of this algorithm.




 
 
public class BogoSort 
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		//Enter array to be sorted here
		int[] arr={4,5,6,0,7,8,9,1,2,3};
 
		BogoSort now=new BogoSort();
		System.out.print("Unsorted: ");
		now.display1D(arr);
 
		now.bogo(arr);
 
		System.out.print("Sorted: ");
		now.display1D(arr);
	}
	void bogo(int[] arr)
	{
		//Keep a track of the number of shuffles
		int shuffle=1;
		for(;!isSorted(arr);shuffle++)
			shuffle(arr);
		//Boast
		System.out.println("This took "+shuffle+" shuffles.");
	}
	void shuffle(int[] arr)
	{
		//Standard Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm
		int i=arr.length-1;
		while(i>0)
			swap(arr,i--,(int)(Math.random()*i));
	}
	void swap(int[] arr,int i,int j)
	{
		int temp=arr[i];
		arr[i]=arr[j];
		arr[j]=temp;
	}
	boolean isSorted(int[] arr)
	{
 
		for(int i=1;i<arr.length;i++)
			if(arr[i]<arr[i-1])
				return false;
		return true;
	}
	void display1D(int[] arr)
	{
		for(int i=0;i<arr.length;i++)
			System.out.print(arr[i]+" ");
		System.out.println();
	}
 
}
 