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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f6c360ce344b2364 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.205.139.2 with SMTP id iu2mr1520137bkc.7.1341308858943; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 02:47:38 -0700 (PDT) Path: y28ni10721bky.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: My Invention of "Bug Sort". Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:47:37 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <3852c348-a728-44ed-b065-c8a596c1e235@googlegroups.com> <698085ff-6ca3-4a0e-b963-11bdcf11e6b5@googlegroups.com> <1u9ig9nnen59q$.ajozwlsekr7l.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="99bYNJtEvlrpBoQ0ZcxWfw"; logging-data="21994"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19SRlpkXExsNAVBlNA4JMl+igh+bBsRsTM=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:A09DZEO9m/KxlGIjTUJBvEJAtT0= sha1:FJFusJu36fzawlDIfMUh/gMBxas= Content-Type: text/plain Date: 2012-07-03T10:47:37+01:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" writes: > I'm pretty sure that this definition > was copied verbatim from some reference. The (free-standing) last bullet of [1] (before the "Total preorders" section) concurs, though I don't suppose that Wikipedia was the reference in question! Thanks for the discussion. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_weak_ordering#Properties