FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for September 26, 2013
September 25, 2013
September 27, 2013
Transcript:
Paige: I think my sample advice columns turned out pretty well. I've got advice about dating, advice about food, advice about shopping, and advice about optimizing a sort algorithm for mostly bell-shaped distributions of data. Mom made me take one of Jason's questions. Peter: Ah. Jason: Figures she did the easy one.
Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
I hope it isn’t the one about the “very, very, very, very, very, vey repulsive sister.”
KEA over 11 years ago
Nab was stating a trivial calc problem – akin to what Jason was asking.
sbchamp over 11 years ago
She didn’t say it was ‘good’ advice…Fourteen and two thirds
Doctor11 over 11 years ago
I hardly call Jason’s question simple.
Waddling Eagle over 11 years ago
Meh. The answer is found in Jan Leeuwen, if not Knuth. There hasn’t been a new sort algorithm in decades. My brother wrote one he thought was new; it wasn’t in any of the texts and I had never seen it. But he says he finally found it somewhere else. And that was, what, more than 20 years ago? Time flies.
The Life I Draw Upon over 11 years ago
Shell Sort.