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Nearly all binary search and merge sort implementations 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 30, 2012Nearly all binary search and merge sort implementations are broken (2006) by arto14869
Feb 17, 2010Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006) by gruseom10149
Nov 26, 2013Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006) by prajjwal6646

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