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Val Westergard has spent his life retailing vacuum cleaners. He is 58 years old.

The genius, Bill Gates, you referred to showed aptitude a vacuum cleaner salesman would not even comprehend:

Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973. While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who later succeeded Gates as CEO of Microsoft.

In his sophomore year, Gates devised an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems, presented in a combinatorics class by Harry Lewis, one of his professors. Gates' solution held the record as the fastest version for over thirty years; its successor is faster by only one percent. His solution was later formalized in a published paper in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.

Val has been a genuine vaccum cleaner salesman for as long as Bill Gates has been a genuine genius.




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