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: 14d

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The smart bubble sort will do the same number of comparisons as the simple bubble sort if they have to pass the unsorted part of the list the same number of times. This should happen if the list is the reversed version of an ordered list.

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