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Subject: Re: sorts
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Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 06:52:36 EDT
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[Big Brother is watching "Gilligan's Island"]

A sidelight on the sorting controversy, from one of my own articles:

It is worth recalling that when CMS developed the "Miracle Sort"
algorithm, KFF immediately imposed a news blackout.  This did not stop
astute mathematicians from guessing the details of the algorithm,
assisted by an article in a popular diplomacy magazine.  Although the
algorithm is now known to have an average-case processing rate that is
_significantly_ lower than that for any published sorting procedure, it
still has not appeared in print!
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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