From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2002-08-07T03:21:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Coding challenge (on Ruby Garden)


From: "Ned Konz" <ned@bike-nomad.com>
>
> On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:00 am, Bill Kelly wrote:
> > . . . Anyway, I'd be interested in anyone's thoughts on what's
> > going on here......  (Hope I didn't botch the tests somehow -
> > but I don't think so!)
> 
> algorithms with order N vs order N^2: 10x the number of items means 
> 1/10 vs 1/100 the speed...

Hehe, yeah.... sorry to come off like a dumbass.. :)  I hadn't 
studied the other solutions yet, and incorrectly assumed they
were all pretty much "brute force"....


Bill