
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.




Smalltalk at: #isItSorted put: [ :c |
  |isit|
  isit := false.
  (2 to: (c size)) detect: [ :i |
    ( (c at: ( i - 1 )) > (c at: i) )
  ] ifNone: [ isit := true ].
  isit
].
Smalltalk at: #bogosort put: [ :c |
  [ isItSorted value: c ] whileFalse: [
     1 to: (c size) do: [ :i |
        |r t|
        r := (Random between: 1 and: (c size)).
        t := (c at: i).
        c at: i put: (c at: r).
        c at: r put: t
     ]
  ]
].
 
|tobesorted|
tobesorted := { 2 . 7 . 5 . 3 . 4 . 8 . 6 . 1 }.
bogosort value: tobesorted.
tobesorted displayNl.