Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1.chuqui 4/7/84; site apple.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!nsc!voder!apple!johan From: johan@apple.UUCP (Johan Strandberg) Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: Stupid-sort -- an O(n*n!) sort program Message-ID: <138@apple.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Jul-84 04:31:25 EDT Article-I.D.: apple.138 Posted: Sun Jul 29 04:31:25 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 01:04:04 EDT References: <276@rna.UUCP> <135@apple.UUCP> Organization: Apple Education Research Group, Cupertino CA Lines: 24 > I am currently trying to sort 15 numbers using the stupid sort > algorithm, this is the current progress (using a VAX 750) > > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > 6981 10 R N 4064:53 worstsort > > The code was compiled with the optimizer. We have very little load > on our machine at the time so I will let it run while I go to SIGGraph > for a week. I will let you know how long time it took... YES! I let the stupid sort run all thru SIGGraph... and this is the "result" (or absense thereof). I will now kill this before it actually completes and therebye does something usefull. PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 6981 10 R N 16154:43 worstsort 16154 minutes = 269.23 hours = 11.22 days = 0.000307134 centuries = 0.307134 mC _________________________Computare necesse est!______________________ Johan Strandberg Apple Computer Education Research Group [ERG] {mtxinu,dual,nsc,voder}!apple!johan