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by mtlmtlmtlmtl 1419 days ago
I heard it mentioned by an old timer that some programmers in those days used to draw a diagonal line with marker across the side of the stack of cards. This was to make sorting the cards faster if the stack was dropped.
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Yes, that helped you. But you still had to put them back in order :( Visual sorting O(n).