#🔒 What does this algorithm do? I assumed it was a merge sort, but now I am having second thoughts.

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fringe solsticeBOT
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@last sky

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last sky
dull fern
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looks kinda like merge sort but it seems to do only one merge? doesn't look like it'd work

last sky
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It is supposed to read a file, remove all punctauation, make all characters lower case, then merge into descending order, showing words in that file with the most occurences, least, and uniqueness.

dull fern
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yeah looks like merge sort

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curious why you decided to change the names around

last sky
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im not proficient in python btw haha, still fairly new

dull fern
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the function names are different in the two samples you sent

last sky
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oh lmao

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because I was very skeptic, so I decided to ask chatgpt without really giving it the name of the function (in case it figures it out). turns out he kept giving me a new algorithm

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idk how, but apparently it was an insertion sort twice, then it chose merge then it kept messing up lmao

dull fern
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yeah chatgpt isn't supposed to be used for this type of stuff (in my personal opinion)

last sky
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my solution was to ask a real person on here instead

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could you help me with one more thing please?

dull fern
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hihi whats up

last sky
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I'd like to remove the .copy() method from the program

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as I am not allowed to use it, idk how to work my way around it

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as you may see in the code, I already removed a lot of previous built-in methods like, isspace(), .append(), etc

dull fern
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i'm not very good at algs i can not help you there

last sky
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ooof unfortunate, i'll just wait for help

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thanks btw 🙂

clever current
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you cannot just use the built in sort?

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seems weird for a task like that

last sky
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yes i know

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i cannot

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we must implement everything on our own, without using any libraries or any built-in methods, etc

dull fern
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i mean if "built-in methods" includes lists and dicts you're done for

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THOSE ARENT METHODS ignore me

clever current
last sky
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we are allowed to use it

clever current
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what?

last sky
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believe me, i am 10x more confused than you

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took my 2 weeks to wrap my head around it

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im not even sure if this will score marks tbh, just wanna finish it 🤣

dull fern
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hahahaha

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!doc numpy.sort

fringe solsticeBOT
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numpy.sort 

numpy.sort(a, axis=-1, kind=None, order=None, *, stable=None)```
Return a sorted copy of an array.
dull fern
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problem solved

last sky
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its weird ik

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i just need to get rid of copy()

dull fern
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!doc numpy.copy

fringe solsticeBOT
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numpy.copy 

numpy.copy(a, order='K', subok=False)```
Return an array copy of the given object.
dull fern
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create a new list copy each element one-by-one?

fringe solsticeBOT
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