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is something I use all the time to get sorted frequency tables.



And, by the way, the two commands are something that could be done in O(n), rather than O(n*log(n)) - but this little procedure is so damn easy to write, that on relatively thin inputs that are less than 20m lines long, I usually just do this.




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