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What’s the Fastest Way to Alphabetize Your Bookshelf?

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Let’s say you’ve got a bunch of books that need to be sorted alphabetically by author. What’s the fastest way

Edsger W. Dijkstra - Wikiwand

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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra ; 11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist[13] and mathematical scientist. A theoretical physicist by training, he worked as a programmer at the Mathematisch Centrum from 1952 to 1962. He was a professor of mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology and a research fellow at the Burroughs Corporation . He held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 1999, and retired ...