I've heard a lot of people talk about beautiful algorithms.
I've been told by some that the Fast Fourier Transform is beautiful I never saw it myself. I also had an Algorithms lecturer almost wet his pants describing Strassen's Amazing Algorithm for Matrix multiplication, I never thought it was that amazing or exciting, but thats just me[1]. However I do see beauty in one of the less efficient sort algorithms (bubble sort), quick sort is fun as well, but merge sort is nicer in my opinion. I also love graph algorithms. So what are other people's feelings about the classic algorithms?[2] Greg [1] For people who studied in the dcs at ed.ac.uk, the lecturer was KK, and you can probably see why you didn't disagree with him. [2] Ok, its a weak thread but its better than discussing reply-to setting on mailing lists or whatever the kooks are wanting to discuss this week ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://217.34.97.146/~gem/
