From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0c23e7a19a435c4 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Received: by 10.68.223.40 with SMTP id qr8mr4768785pbc.0.1340397958641; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni8109pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Recapping on =?windows-1252?Q?=93Bug_Sort=94=2E?= Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:45:53 -0700 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.20.201.198 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1340397958 47615 184.20.201.198 (22 Jun 2012 20:45:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:45:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-06-22T13:45:53-07:00 List-Id: On 06/22/2012 12:55 PM, Austin Obyrne wrote: > > I have been told that my program resembles a known sort program called > �Counting Sort�. I would hate to be guilty of plagiarism and I would like to > point out therefore that the salient thing about my �Parallel Sort� is that > my implementation is geared to capturing data during any unrelated program > run-time and assigning the data in such a way that the separate elements > index their own addresses in the sorting arrays. A similarity with some > other existing paper algorithm is simply fortuitous. What you have presented is an implementation of counting sort, nothing more. There is nothing new or unique about your implementation. -- Jeff Carter "Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" Monty Python's Life of Brian 80 --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to news@netfront.net ---