Back when I was employed as an office peon for a summer myself and a few interns were tasked with alphabetizing about a thousand file folders. Fresh from my al

Back when I was employed as an office peon for a summer myself and a few interns were tasked with alphabetizing about a thousand file folders. Fresh from my algorithms course, I organized a parallel meat space merge sort. And it went pretty quickly. Everyone started with very small random stacks to order, and then merging the pre sorted stacks was relatively quick mindless work.