Bob La Quey wrote: > On 5/8/07, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Bob La Quey wrote: > >> On 5/8/07, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_sort#Postman.27s_Sort > >> > > >> >A zipcode is not a destination, but it does tell you how to get there. > >> > >> Sounds like a false dichotomy to me. A zip code certainly is > >> a destination; one that tells you how to get there. > > > >If you want to look at it like that, you can. But that destnation would > >be an *area*. > > Exactly. An area can be a destination.
But not for a letter, which is where ZIP codes are (primarily) used. About the only time I can see a ZIP code being a useful destination is for an intertial-guided missle: ``aim for 92101.'' -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
