On 09/06/2012 09:43 AM, Johannes Bauer wrote: > <snip> > Yes, worst-case is O(N), best case O(1). Average is O(n log n).
Can't see how you came up with an average of n log(n). Fourteen minutes before you made this post, you demonstrated it was less than 2 for any N. And I previously posted that for a character set of size 10, the average was 1.1111 -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list