colonel@gloria.UUCP (06/27/84)
[Big Brother is watching "Gilligan's Island"] A sidelight on the sorting controversy, from one of my own articles: It is worth recalling that when CMS developed the "Miracle Sort" algorithm, KFF immediately imposed a news blackout. This did not stop astute mathematicians from guessing the details of the algorithm, assisted by an article in a popular diplomacy magazine. Although the algorithm is now known to have an average-case processing rate that is _significantly_ lower than that for any published sorting procedure, it still has not appeared in print! -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel