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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This puts the good old bubble sort to shame!!!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/11/alibaba-cloud-wins-worldwide-battle-of-the-machines/">http://www.wired.com/2015/11/alibaba-cloud-wins-worldwide-battle-of-the-machines/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Some interesting links out of it to the FuxiSort whitepaper and the industry standard sort
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hadoop">Hadoop</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Whilst the details are crazy, it could serve as a decent way to answer the old question “<i>why do we need to learn this”</i> regarding sorts, maths, FIFO and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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