please check this also
Selection_algorithm <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_algorithm>



On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Rajeev Kumar <[email protected]>wrote:

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> http://flexaired.blogspot.com/2011/03/big-file-containing-billions-of-numbers.html
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> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Natansh Verma <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> @dave -was this a constraint since the beginning? In case it was, I am
>> sorry I didn't notice.
>>
>> In that case, the heap method ought to work better. I dont think the
>> quicksort method will work.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On 20-Mar-2011, at 23:00, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > @Natansh: How do you do this with the constraint that your RAM is so
>> > small that you cannot accomodate all of the numbers at once?
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
>> > On Mar 20, 9:04 am, Natansh Verma <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> There's another way... use the partitioning method for quicksort to
>> find the
>> >> k smallest elements. Then it should take expected time as O(n + klogk).
>> >> Plus, it is in-place.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:26 PM, asit <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> I agree with munna
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