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A binary counter of unspecified length supports two operations: increment (which increases...

A binary counter of unspecified length supports two operations: increment (which increases its value by one) and reset (which sets its value back to zero). Show that, starting from an initially zero counter, any sequence of n increment and reset operations takes time O(n); that is, the amortized time per operation is O (1).

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