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Upid-sort N. Syn. Bogo-sort.
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stupid-sort n.
Syn. bogo-sort.
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upid-sort: n. Syn. {bogo-sort}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
bogo-sort: /boh`goh-sort'/ n. (var. `stupid-sort') The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to {bubble sort}, which is merely the generic *bad* algorithm).
Bogo-sort is equivalent to repeatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, picking them up at random, and then testing whether they are in order....
bogo-sort /boh`goh-sort'/ n. (var. `stupid-sort') The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to bubble sort, which is merely the generic bad algorithm).
Bogo-sort is equivalent to repeatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, picking them up at random, and then testing whether they are in order....
bubble sort: n. Techspeak for a particular sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of orde
hus, list entries `bubble upward' in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value....
bubble sort n. Techspeak for a particular sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of orde
thus, list entries `bubble upward' in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value....
pixel sort n. [Commodore users] Any compression routine which irretrievably loses valuable data in the process of crunching it.
Disparagingly used for `lossy' methods such as JPEG....
$ egrep -n '^[a-z].*\\(' $@ | sort -t':' +2.0
egrep -n '^[a-z].*\(' $ | sort -t':' +2.0
If there are no stupid questions, then what sort of questions do stupid people ask? -- Dogbe