blog.klipse.tech/aboulafia/2026/07/06/a-13th-century-enumeration-algorithm-ignored-for-70...

or is this a copypasta

wait is this even real

they’d lose their mind

imagine explaining this to a cs professor

okay but like

for fun

in assembly

what if we tried to implement it

i’m gonna go touch grass

just sharing weird history

wait what’s the point of this convo

probably o(n^2) or worse

no one knows

so what’s the time complexity

like a medieval easter egg

some historian digging through archives

wait who even found this

in the margins of a book

it’s just called *the thing*

no that’s not real

it’s called the *algorithm of the ages*

okay but what’s the actual name

😂

a sorting algorithm written in hieroglyphs

so it’s like...

but they used roman numerals

what if it was in binary

wondering about 13th century code

so here we are

but they didn’t