On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:08:51 EST, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

>...
>> good test for CS students.  I picture a blank stare on the  student's
>> faces, but I would love to be shown wrong.
>...
>
>>>
>Usually what we'd do is get Knuth's book and  translate from MIX to 
whatever
>was required. Radix sort is 45 lines on pg  126?
>...

I wasn't really talking about the ability to write the sort.  I was
thinking about the analysis that points to radix partitioning being
a solution - analysis of the data structure as something to consider
at all.

Pat O'Keefe

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Reply via email to