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?

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[februaryfour]

Doug's answer: "Give it to the intern."
Doug's slightly-more-useful answer: "Probably a variation on Radix sort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_sort"

[mindstalk]

Hmm, interesting. Binning certainly can have a role.