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From: jvc@stl.stc.co.uk (Vic Churchill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Information on order(N) sort
Message-ID: <504@u410a.stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 12:36:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  6 12:36:17 1987
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Reply-To: jvc@stl.UUCP (Vic Churchill)
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Summary: WHOOAH! That's not what he asked for !!

The poor person who asked the original question, as I
recall, was asking how to discover the appropriate channels
for publicising what he believed to be a novel algorithm. So
far I have seen one followup that offered that information,
n (n>1) replies saying "ah but you must be thinking of a
radix-pigeonhole-what-have-you sort, fool", and m (m>>n) replies
saying "well my prof taught me / I read somewhere that the
best kinda sort is the foodangle variation of the quicksort",
"oh no it isnt", "oh yes it is". The natural lifecycle of a
USENET query generally seems to go through these stages
and then reaches the "STOPPIT!!" stage. This one just did. 

By the way, at this moment I don't give a hoot what the
consensus reality thinks the best sort is. The original
question I thought was quite interesting....

People can't read my handwritten signature so why shurgltsplrf?
   Vic Churchill (jvc@stl  ...!mcvax!ukc!stl!jvc  +44-279-29531 x 2546)
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