31 Oct
2006
31 Oct
'06
8:31 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Doc Shipley once stated:
Richard wrote:
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie
Pop? Let's find out ... one ... tw-hooo ... three <crunch>.
Oh, sorry.
Chapter 5.4.6: six tapes are used in the sample given in the section.
-spc (But the algorithm has been generalized for P tapes ... )
In article <45479038.22326.4735378C at
cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
How many would that be? After alll, it was the tape drives that defined a
computer for
Hollywood for many years...
So far noone has responded to my earlier query in the affirmative:
Does anyone have enough tape drives that they can do the
multi-drive merge/sort tape algorithms described in Knuth's
Art of Computer Programming?