Office sort

[mindstalk]

This is mostly for the CS types:

Say you're in an office, and someone brings in a stack of 500 papers that needs to be sorted. How do you think they'll naturally approach the problem, and how as someone brimming with CS knowledge would you advise them to sort it?

Comments

[cleverthylacine]

With 500 I'd probably start by sorting into 26 stacks just to save stress on my hands (500 pieces of paper is a ream, and hence heavy) but it might be faster just to do the thing where you order them as you go along. Or maybe just 5 stacks: A-E, F-J, K-O, P-T, U-Z.