← Back

April 20, 2016

#1670: Laws of Physics

Laws of Physics

((This comic is a “timeline” of algorithm complexity, ordered from least to most complex. The first five are roughly equally spaced, with the last item at the extreme end of the axis.))

Algorithms by complexity

More complex

Leftpad

Quicksort

Git merge

Self-driving car

Google search backend

Sprawling Excel spreadsheet built up over 20 years by a church group in Nebraska to coordinate their scheduling