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Subject: Re: [OT] Sorting algorithms IRL (was Re: IF for Non-Programmers)
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Lewis Raszewski  <rraszews@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Georgina Bensley wrote:
>> > >Um... You *do* know that radix sort is order N if you're a human?
>> > I prefer doing merge sorts - I find they work quite well with physical
>> > objects, like stacks of tests etc.
>> Okay, I admit I was only a computer science minor and not a major (which
>> would therefore be why I"m working in a library and not a programmer) and
>> the words "radix sort" aren't actually meaning a damned thing to me.
>
>Radix sort was the first sort whose name came to be from a family of
>sorts based on the principle...

You know, this is the exact sort of thread that is basically ENTIRELY
IRRELEVANT to IF, and should be taken to email, not just tacked with
an "OT".

I'm pretty sure you have email, given that I emailed BOTH you
and Georgina a single mail, addressing the previous post in
this thread *and* attempting to define what radix sort was,
to spare us further posts on the subject...

and you responded to that email by email.

For the love of Gorf, people, just say no to off-topic posts.

Sean "grumpy" B
