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Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:23:45 -0400
From: Dave Angel <d@davea.name>
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On 09/06/2012 09:43 AM, Johannes Bauer wrote:
> <snip>
> Yes, worst-case is O(N), best case O(1). Average is O(n log n).

Can't see how you came up with an average of n log(n).  Fourteen minutes
before you made this post, you demonstrated it was less than 2 for any N.

And I previously posted that for a character set of size 10, the average
was 1.1111



-- 

DaveA