Years ago I was doing summer temp work at an office. Myself and a small group of other temps/interns were given several tall stacks of records to alphabetize by

Years ago I was doing summer temp work at an office. Myself and a small group of other temps/interns were given several tall stacks of records to alphabetize by title. I shudder to think how long that would have taken if I hadn't convinced everyone to do a meat-space parallel merge sort.