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klochner on Feb 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Algorithms, A Dropbox Challenge and Dynamic Progra...

I was kidding :)

seriously though, what's up with the sort() call?

btilly on Feb 27, 2011 [–]

what's up with the sort() call?

The spec for the problem he was actually trying to solve said that you needed to provide the set of activities in sorted order. The list is generated in no particular order, so I sorted them before returning them. (A Python array sort sorts the array in place.)

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