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Pancake Numbers - Numberphile

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Computer scienceAlgorithmsComputation and complexity

Katie Steckles explains the mathematics of pancake numbers and the history of the pancake sorting problem.

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What people say. Recommended as a clear explanation of the pancake sorting algorithm and its mathematical bounds.

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