Re^3: sort function and parity of the permutation.

I don't think this is offensive. It's basically asking if this is an XY Problem, which is often a good question.

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Re^4: sort function and parity of the permutation. by roboticus (Chancellor) on Feb 14, 2011 at 11:40 UTC
moritz: I didn't think it would be offensive either. I ordinarily wouldn't have said such a thing--but I was recently surprised when I saw a similarly innocuous question spawn a thread that got out of hand and I wanted to try to gently nudge BrowserUk a bit since this time he was on the other side of a similar question. ...roboticus When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.	[reply]

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Re^4: sort function and parity of the permutation.
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Feb 14, 2011 at 11:40 UTC

moritz:

I didn't think it would be offensive either. I ordinarily wouldn't have said such a thing--but I was recently surprised when I saw a similarly innocuous question spawn a thread that got out of hand and I wanted to try to gently nudge BrowserUk a bit since this time he was on the other side of a similar question.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

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