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Subject: Re: O(1) garbage

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:20:30 05/17/01

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On May 17, 2001 at 18:13:48, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>On May 17, 2001 at 17:16:59, Jesper Antonsson wrote:
>
>>>
>>>The algorithms used for chess such as alpha-beta, are general, and certainly
>>>Omega(exp(n)).
>>
>>The algorithms used for chess are chess algorithms, which are alpha-beta with
>>added constraints. The constraints make the algorithms O(1).
>
>So, bubblesort is O(1) when it is used to sort, for instance, license plate
>numbers.
>
>Miguel


Apparently some think so.  I would not recommend anyone telling either their
boss, or a prospective employer that, however...  IE "if you can tell me the
maximum number of inputs I will _ever_ have to sort, then I can do it with an
O(1) algorithm...



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