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  3. April 2009

Re: Function to find the greatest or smallest value

CRPence wrote:
Adam Glauser wrote:
Personally I prefer Asher's [sort] solution, which is both
more elegant and more efficient. To each their own.

Just curious. Why would a sort be more efficient than spinning the array in the /for loop/ as above? Does the sort not require effectively all the same work?

Erm, I was wrong. I was thinking of quicksort, which is O(n log n). Somehow my memory had turned that into O(log n), which as you pointed out is not possible. I think sort, by definition, can not be better than O(n). The max loop is clearly better.

Your point later about maintaining the order of the original arrays is also well taken.

Thanks for the corrections.

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