Selection By Sorting
Selection can be reduced to sorting by sorting the list and then extracting the desired element. This method is efficient when many selections need to be made from a list, in which case only one initial, expensive sort is needed, followed by many cheap extraction operations. In general, this method requires O(n log n) time, where n is the length of the list.
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