Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Seventh Edition

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Chapter 3 - Section 3.1 - Algorithms - Exercises - Page 202: 11

Answer

The required algorithm is: procedure swap($x, y:$ two numbers) temp$:=x$ $x:=y$ $y:=$temp

Work Step by Step

Notice how we need to have a temporary variable to store the value of $x$ since that value gets lost when we assign $y$ to $x$. The minimum number of assignments needed is $3$ and we cannot do any better.
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