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Re:Sorting 1 million 8-digit decimal numbers in 1MB of RAM by kevinburke on Sunday October 21, 2012 @01:50PM (#4680240)
It does sound similar to the opening problem in the book "Programming Pearls." The solution proposed there was to write temporary files to disk and do a K-ways sort.
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Re:Sorting 1 million 8-digit decimal numbers in 1MB of RAM by gburt on Sunday October 21, 2012 @04:18PM (#4680658)
Except in this case, you have no disk.
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