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COS 226 Exercises on Elementary Sorting


1. Which of the following programs from the text are stable: selection (Program 6.2), insertion (Program 6.3), bubblesort (Program 6.4), or shellsort (Program 6.5)?















2. Suppose that a file is 5-, 11-, and 13- ordered. What is the maximum number of elements that could be to the left of a given element and larger?

























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