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		shrughes on Jan 31, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Send Me Your Nominations for Algorithms That Chang... But how did it change the world? There are plenty of other usable sorting algorithms.

russell on Jan 31, 2009 [–]

It did not change the world in the sense that pagerank did, but in 1961 it was an important contribution, because it was simple enough to lend itself to formal analysis.

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