Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance

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61 points·jaybol··20 comments

I have friends in Romania, I showed them this and they assure me that this is how CS is taught there. What a country!

Omg, i just used O(n^2) time to watch that. Why could they do quick or mergesort.

(Parallel Mergesort as a dance would be pretty cool!)

You win my Comment of the Day award

five days ago

The downsides of not hanging around on Reddit anymore...

You got me, but the paralllel merge sort was my idea.

Edit: Damn somebody on reddit said that too but i didn't read it there.

I was thinking how painfully slow it was, until I remembered the adage: "make it work, then make it elegant, then make it fast."

It works, and it is certainly elegant.

Fantastic, without taking away from the beauty of the performances: this is like Sesame Street for hackers!

BTW, is there any Hungarian folks here?

Igen (means yes in hungarian).

Yes, I'm from near the place these dancers are from (in Romania).

Yes.

I'm half, spent 12 years, but don't live there any more. Does that count?

Yes, but not living there.

neat, I'm not hungarian but I live in budapest :)

Biztosan.

Born in Brazil, but very much Hungarian.

Igen.:)

FYI, yes there are.

I expected something like Algorithm March (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm_March), but this is far more... algorithmic.

I knew Stallman was up to something.