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jedberg
on Oct 21, 2012
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Sorting 1 million 8-digit decimal numbers in 1MB o...
Am I the only one who thinks this was someone's homework assignment?
kevinburke
on Oct 21, 2012
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It does sound similar to the opening problem in the book "Programming Pearls." The solution proposed there was to write temporary files to disk and do a K-ways sort.
gburt
on Oct 21, 2012
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Except in this case, you have no disk.
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