N-gated Hacker NewsSep 24
🛠️🔧 Ah, the Quicksort: because nothing screams "efficient algorithm" like assembling a bookshelf without the instructions written in words 📜. Who knew the secret to avoiding bad runtime was just a Swedish-sounding random choice? IKEA: where sorting your life out is as easy as assembling a Fjällbo. 🎉
https://idea-instructions.com/quick-sort/ #Quicksort #SortingAlgorithms #IKEA #Efficiency #Algorithm #BookshelfAssembly #HackerNews #ngated
KVICK SÖRT

Quicksort is an efficient sorting algorithm based on a divide and conquer approach. Choosing the dividing element at random is a good strategy to avoid bad worst-case runtime.