April 18, 2004
Page 23
So, I've written this entry once already (on which more later), but here goes again. There is a meme doing the rounds, which I saw on Aquarionics, here, which gives the following instructions:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 23.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
I've just been unpacking my books, having got back to Uni today, so I can just grab the first from my nice organised bookshelf. It won't last, but it's nice while it does... So, from Introduction to Algorithms, by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein (aka "CLR". I always feel sorry for Clifford Stein, though I guess he did only appear for the 2nd edition.) here it is:
"The time taken by the Insertion-Sort procedure depends on the input: sorting a thousand numbers takes longer than sorting three numbers."
Wow, such insight. :-)
Posted by James at 16:53
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