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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm? by skykooler on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:23AM (#18238665)
BogoSort is an algorithm. Not a very good algorithm, but an algorithm nevertheless.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm? by another-cuppa on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:06AM (#18239762)
No it absolutely is not.

The lack of fundamental computer science knowledge in this thread is alarming.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm? by another-cuppa on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:12PM (#18241847)
Negative 2 points on a post saying that a computational method that possibly never terminates is not an algorithm... Oh dear...
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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm? by wnoise on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:31PM (#18243492)
It never terminates with probability 0.
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