Talk:IBM 80 series Card Sorters

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[edit] radix or bin sort?

Sorting least significant column first, then next, ... is a radix sort. Bin sorting is sorting the most significant column first, then the next most significant for each bin (you have to keep the bins separate), then .... See the description of Postman's sort in the Bin Sort article for a description of radix sorting, also look at the radix sort article. Thanks. 69.106.232.37 00:45, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

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