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C# Data Structures and Algorithms
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C# Data Structures and Algorithms

by Marcin Jamro
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
292 pages
6h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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"Sorted" sets

The previously described class, HashSet, can be understood as a dictionary that stores only keys, without values. So, if there is the SortedDictionary class, maybe there is also the SortedSet class? Indeed, there is! However, can a set be "sorted"? Why is the "sorted" word written with quotation marks? The answer is simple—by definition, a set stores a collection of distinct objects without duplicated elements and without a particular order. If a set does not support order, how can it be "sorted"? For this reason, a "sorted" set can be understood as a combination of HashSet and SortedList, not a set itself.

The "sorted" set can be used if you want to have a sorted collection of distinct objects without duplicated elements. The ...

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