Exercise. Show that for n = 5, it is possible to sort using 7 comparisons (tricky).

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Your Turn! Try running this sort, as well as in debug mode. It prints a lot, but you can sort of see the two steps— splitting and merging—occurring, just by the width of the left and right arrays being used.

Sorting is so common, that we often start caring about constant factors.

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Need sort allowing repeated keys which preserves input order Want sort to be stable: repeated keys appear in output in same order as input Direct access array sort cannot even sort arrays having …

/* Sorts by selecting smallest element in unsorted portion of array and exchanging it with element at the beginning of the unsorted list.