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a. What sentinel should be put before the first element of an array being sorted in orde...

a. What sentinel should be put before the first element of an array being sorted in order to avoid checking the in-bound condition j ≥ 0 on each iteration of the inner loop of insertion sort?

b. Is the sentinel version in the same efficiency class as the original version?

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Solutions For Problems in Chapter 4.1