stackyFACTSThe ultimate test of a programmer's patience and faith. This algorithm continuously checks if an array is sorted, desperately hoping a random bit-flip caused by deep space radiation will eventually do all the hard work for it.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Technology →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
What controversial matchmaking formula did popular dating apps originally borrow directly from competitive chess?
Discover more
Why use intelligence when you can use pure, unadulterated chaos? Bogosort is an intentionally terrible sorting algorithm that checks if a list of numbers is…
Discover more
Sometimes digital problems require terribly messy physical solutions. This theoretical sorting method suggests cutting dry noodles to represent values,…
Discover more
Because regular Bogosort wasn't useless enough. This masterpiece of a joke algorithm actually checks if the list is sorted by running Bogosort on a copy of…
Discover more
If the public actually saw the code running their lives, society would collapse in panic. Critical platforms holding immense databases are often a tangled…
Discover more
Your kitchen appliances are statistically smarter than Apollo-era spaceships. The Space Shuttle's primary flight software had about 400,000 lines of code. A…
Discover more