Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337561916
ISBN 13: 978-1-33756-191-4

Chapter 3 - 3.3 - Measuring Efficiency - Practice Problems - Page 109: 1d

Answer

The list is already in sorted order. Although the $selection\ sort$ algorithm will go through all of its operations, the largest element will always be at the back of the unsorted section and will be exchanged with itself, resulting in no change.

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The list is already in sorted order. Although the $selection\ sort$ algorithm will go through all of its operations, the largest element will always be at the back of the unsorted section and will be exchanged with itself, resulting in no change.
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