Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:22:10 10/19/99
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On October 19, 1999 at 21:07:04, Dave Gomboc wrote:
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>Looks like I spaced too...
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>...but I _meant_ selection sort! ;-)
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>Though I hear that insertion sort is very good for short lists in general,
>selection sort is better for chess stuff because we are not usually sorting all
>of the items, just the top 1-4 or so.
In which case you are not applying a sorting algorithm, but a *selection*
algorithm {specifically: select the top k items}
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