# L-29 MCS 260 Fri 2 Nov 2007 : timetosort
#
# This program illustrates how to time the
# sort of lists.  The optional command line
# argument is the length of the list to sort.

import time
import sys
from random import gauss

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
   n = input('Give #elements : ')
else: 
   n = int(sys.argv[1])
r = range(0,n)
L = map(lambda i: gauss(0,1),r)
start_time = time.clock()
L.sort()
stop_time = time.clock()
elapsed = stop_time - start_time
print 'sorting %d floats' % n \
 + ' took %.3f seconds ' % elapsed