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> This is silly. We know. No one is proposing this be used to actually sort. It's funny because it is a linear time algorithm, but incredibly inefficient and i
by c3534l 7y ago
> This is silly.
We know. No one is proposing this be used to actually sort. It's funny because it is a linear time algorithm, but incredibly inefficient and impractical in real life.
- wubblebubble 7y agoi've actually implemented a similar spatial-sort method used within an analog computer for some industrial controllers. so it does have some real life applications.
- s_gourichon 7y agoThe traditional mechanical systems in automatic vending machines that tell and sort correct coins from wrong or fake ones are probably of the same class of mechanical "sorting" (rather categorization in this case) systems. "Mechanical coin acceptor" appears to be the established expression for it.