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Originally Posted by Celestial Mechanic
The more I think about it, the more the phrase "Think outside the box" disturbs me. Most of the time it is used to justify slovenly, uncritical thinking in the belief that the most "creative" solutions are the best. Here's a boring anecdote to illustrate my point.
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But...how does it illustrate that point?
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Everyone else in the class chose to generate an array containing (say) all the powers of 2, then add the products of these with powers of three to the array, call the sort routine from the subroutine library, then multiply these numbers by powers of 5, and call the sort routine one last time.
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JOOC, why the first sort?