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Not everything can be done in constant time, that's O(k) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Surely you could implement this via a sorting algorithm? If you can prove the distance function is a metric and both lists contains elements from the same space under that metric, isn’t the answer to sort both?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

It's essentially the traveling salesman problem