Re: [twitter-dev] what does K-sorted mean?

2010-10-20 Thread John Kalucki
K-sorted means roughly sorted, where no item is no more than K positions from it's totally ordered position. A sequence is k-sorted IFF, for all i,r, 1= i = r = n, i= r-k implies that a(i) = a(r). The generation scheme has to allow sufficient IDs to be generated in a non-coordinated way to cover

Re: [twitter-dev] what does K-sorted mean?

2010-10-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting John Kalucki j...@twitter.com: K-sorted means roughly sorted, where no item is no more than K positions from it's totally ordered position. A sequence is k-sorted IFF, for all i,r, 1= i = r = n, i= r-k implies that a(i) = a(r). The generation scheme has to allow sufficient IDs to be