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Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)
Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...
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| Jan 11, 2025 | Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006) by thunderbong | 164 | 189 |
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