Sorting socks can be sped up using science, researchers have claimed. Scientists said the frustrating and dull task of pairing socks can be made much quicker and more effective by using an algorithm.

It's a laborious chore - matching up socks in a big pile of washing. They never seem to come out together, but now there's an algorithm that promises to turn you into an efficient sock-sorting machine ...

Radix sort is a non-comparison based sorting algorithm with a wide range of applications. Although often used for integers, it can also be used for sorting words alphabetically. The algorithm splits a ...