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Barack Obama on Sorting Algorithms
Posted on November 14th, 2007 2 comments
Barack Obama is speaking at Google today. Supposedly, Eric Schmidt explained his speaking at Google was kind of like an interview. When we interview candidates at Google, we like to ask technical questions.
Schmidt: What’s the fastest way to sort 32 bit numbers?
Barack: Not bubble-sort.Sure, we’d expect a little more from a technical candidate, but as a presidential candidate, I’d say that’s not too bad of an answer!
2 responses to “Barack Obama on Sorting Algorithms”
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I believe he actually said “I can tell you one thing: a bubble sort will not be the right path” or something along those lines.
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Anonymous January 6th, 2008 at 16:36