http://flexaired.blogspot.com/2011/03/big-file-containing-billions-of-numbers.html
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Natansh Verma <natansh.ve...@gmail.com>wrote: > @dave -was this a constraint since the beginning? In case it was, I am > sorry I didn't notice. > > In that case, the heap method ought to work better. I dont think the > quicksort method will work. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 20-Mar-2011, at 23:00, Dave <dave_and_da...@juno.com> wrote: > > > @Natansh: How do you do this with the constraint that your RAM is so > > small that you cannot accomodate all of the numbers at once? > > > > Dave > > > > On Mar 20, 9:04 am, Natansh Verma <natansh.ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There's another way... use the partitioning method for quicksort to find > the > >> k smallest elements. Then it should take expected time as O(n + klogk). > >> Plus, it is in-place. > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:26 PM, asit <lipu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> I agree with munna > >> > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >>> "Algorithm Geeks" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > >> > >> - Show quoted text - > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > > To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > > -- Thank You Rajeev Kumar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.