Lisa's First Word promotion due to the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott by the Soviet Union, as happened to Krusty. At one point in the episode, Dr. Hibbert refers to Olympic gymnastic medalist Mary Lou Retton. In its original American broadcast, "Lisa's First Word" was watched by 28.6 million viewers, the most-watched episode of the season. It finished thirteenth in the ratings for the week of November 30 to December 6, 1992, with a Nielsen rating of 16.6. The episode was the highest-rated show on Fox that week. It acquired the highest national Nielsen rating of the show since the season two episode "Bart
Word RAM problem size, that is, for a problem of size , formula_2, the word RAM model is a transdichotomous model. The model allows bitwise operations such as arithmetic and logical shifts to be done in constant time. The number of possible values is , where formula_3. In the word RAM model, integer sorting can be done fairly efficiently. Yijie Han and Mikkel Thorup created a randomized algorithm to sort integers in expected time of (in Big O notation) formula_4, while Han also created a deterministic variant with running time formula_5. The dynamic predecessor problem is also commonly analyzed in the word