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Darren New wrote:
> My brother puts all the spoons in one bucket in the dishwasher, all the
> forks in another, etc, so he doesn't have to sort the utensils. (Since I
> can empty the whole dishwasher in the time it takes to re-nuke a cup of
> coffee, I don't really see the savings there.)
Hmm. Sort the items in insertion. Sort the items on removal. Sounds like
both algorithms should be of equal time complexity...
> On the other hand, I have two colors of socks: light and dark. When they
> were out, I buy 20+ pairs of new socks all the same and use them until
> too many wear out. I haven't sorted socks since high school.
I could go for that.
For some reason, whenever my mum drags me out shopping, we go into about
15 shops and *finally* find a pair of trousers that look good on me, and
then we buy *one* pair. WTF? Why don't we just buy, say, 15 identical
pairs? That way I wouldn't keep running out of trousers to wear!
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