Maybe it's just because I've spent too long with computers, but I thought the everyday meaning of "sorting" was ordering, not categorizing.
(Though now that I think about it, it's both: if I handed a random non-coder a deck of cards and asked them to sort them, I'd expect them to group by suit and then order by value. I wouldn't expect four stacks by suit in random order, or a deck of all the cards in numerical order regardless of suit...)
That nitpick aside, it was a good excuse to get into the interesting pre-digital computing history stuff.
(Though now that I think about it, it's both: if I handed a random non-coder a deck of cards and asked them to sort them, I'd expect them to group by suit and then order by value. I wouldn't expect four stacks by suit in random order, or a deck of all the cards in numerical order regardless of suit...)
That nitpick aside, it was a good excuse to get into the interesting pre-digital computing history stuff.