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Think about using binary search and mergesort, or devising your own divide-and-conquer alg...

Think about using binary search and mergesort, or devising your own divide-and-conquer algorithm. Implement and test your algorithm.

Dutch-national-flag problem. Design a linear-time algorithm to sort an array of Comparable objects that is known to have at most three distinct values. (Edsgar Dijkstra named this the Dutch-national-flag problem because the result is three “stripes” of values like the three stripes in the flag.)

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Solutions For Problems in Chapter 4.2