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Narue · Sep 15th, 2006, 3:14 PM

>One question though, what the heck would we use this for?
For learning, of course. Studying sorting algorithms can give you a huge number of potential tools in algorithm design because they're basically the most researched topic in computer science, and the tricks used in them can be used elsewhere as well. As an example, take the divide and conquer trick from quicksort and see how many obvious places it can be applied.

Just because you don't use an algorithm doesn't mean you didn't learn anything from it.

Sep 15th, 2006, 3:14 PM	#19
Narue Professional Programmer Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 419 Rep Power: 3	>One question though, what the heck would we use this for? For learning, of course. Studying sorting algorithms can give you a huge number of potential tools in algorithm design because they're basically the most researched topic in computer science, and the tricks used in them can be used elsewhere as well. As an example, take the divide and conquer trick from quicksort and see how many obvious places it can be applied. Just because you don't use an algorithm doesn't mean you didn't learn anything from it. __________________ Even if the voices aren't real, they have some pretty good ideas.