Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

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

Chapter 3 - Exercises - Page 142: 14c

Answer

The best-case scenario would be with a sorted list as input. This means that only one pass will have to be performed before the algorithm "realizes" the list is sorted. For $n$ elements this means $n-1$ comparisons and no exchanges.

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