Submission + - Obama at Google (yahoo.com)
infinitysv5 writes: Obama made a campaign stop at Google. He pledged to post government data on the Internet in universally accessible formats, and likened his quick rise in politics to Google's rapid emergence as the giant it is. He also fielded questions, like this one:
"Obama was prepared when Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the event moderator, asked him the most efficient way to sort a million 32-bit integers.
Obama said he did not favor the bubble sort method, impressing engineers by his reference to a method of sorting out numerical algorithms.
"You answered the question correctly," Schmidt said."
Only a politician would even mention bubble sort.
"Obama was prepared when Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the event moderator, asked him the most efficient way to sort a million 32-bit integers.
Obama said he did not favor the bubble sort method, impressing engineers by his reference to a method of sorting out numerical algorithms.
"You answered the question correctly," Schmidt said."
Only a politician would even mention bubble sort.
