Difference between revisions of "Talk:1185: Ineffective Sorts"
Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
Saying "bogosorts actually run in O(n*n!) time and may never finish" is a contradiction. Not the runtime is in O(n*n!), but the ''expected'' runtime. [[User:BKA|BKA]] ([[User talk:BKA|talk]]) 08:19, 14 March 2013 (UTC) | Saying "bogosorts actually run in O(n*n!) time and may never finish" is a contradiction. Not the runtime is in O(n*n!), but the ''expected'' runtime. [[User:BKA|BKA]] ([[User talk:BKA|talk]]) 08:19, 14 March 2013 (UTC) | ||
+ | |||
+ | Didn't the author of the halfhearted merge sort give up on the sort part of the merge sort? 'cause merging is done in the return[a,b] part as far is see it...[[Special:Contributions/193.175.223.10|193.175.223.10]] 18:00, 14 March 2013 (UTC) |
Revision as of 18:00, 14 March 2013
I loved the "runs in O(n log n)" part. 76.106.251.87 00:16, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
I lost it on //portability. It's a sad state where I've actually more or less come across 3 of these. 203.126.136.142 00:56, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Audiovisual aid circa 1981, eh: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gv0JUEqaAXo#t=236s 98.111.152.198 01:35, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
One of xkcd's best in a quite a while, imo. Alpha (talk) 03:39, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Saying "bogosorts actually run in O(n*n!) time and may never finish" is a contradiction. Not the runtime is in O(n*n!), but the expected runtime. BKA (talk) 08:19, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Didn't the author of the halfhearted merge sort give up on the sort part of the merge sort? 'cause merging is done in the return[a,b] part as far is see it...193.175.223.10 18:00, 14 March 2013 (UTC)