Obama on sort algorithms

by john on February 15, 2008

[Obama] was asked by chief executive Eric Schmidt about “the most efficient way to sort a million 32-bit integers,” a problem in computer coding. . . .

Without missing a beat, Obama said, correctly, “I think the bubble sort would be the wrong way to go.”

(http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/02/04/candidates_cozy_up_to_silicon_valley/)

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