From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-05-28T11:40:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15819] Re: Subsets of a set

"David S." wrote:

> An alogorithm exponential in it's input size "runs for a very long time"?
> Isn't that surprising ...
>
> David S.

Fair comment, but 4 minutes for n=8 is a bit over the top.  Let's face it, 2^8
isn't a particularly big number.