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What Does "What Does ⍋⍋ Even Mean?" Even Mean?

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Madeline Vergani

A while back I was casually perusing the articles on Jo̊t Dọt Ti̽mes and fell in love with almost anything that Brandon Wilson writes up. In his What Does ⍋⍋ Even Mean?, he shares a quote that just feels like a challenge:

A while back I was casually perusing the articles on Jo̊t Dọt Ti̽mes and fell in love with almost everything that Paul Mansour writes up. In his Grade Down of Grade Up, he shares a quote that just feels like a challenge:

So the conclusion is that if we are only dealing in permutations ⍒⍋ is worthless since it’s simply a slower , and if we are not dealing in permutations even Adám doesn’t know what ⍒⍋ does so it is probably equally worthless.

Wilson's answer is a satisfying general answer, but it turns out there is actually a really nice special application! We won't consider general arrays, but—

That's it, that's the end of the article.