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Sorting an array

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-24 4:13

There's an array of values from 1 to n. It isn't sorted. We have to sort it, but there are only to ways to move: third element to beginning or last element to beginning. How to do that ?

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-24 11:16

>>14
2 1 3 4:
4 2 1 3 (last-->1)
3 4 2 1 (3-->1)
2 4 3 1 (3-->1)
1 2 4 3 (last-->1)
4 1 2 3 (3-->1)
3 4 1 2 (last-->1)
2 3 4 1 (last-->1)
1 2 3 4 (last-->1)[/m]
The real question is if you can build an intuitive algorithm out of these two rules.  I doubt the problem can be made to compute in polynomial time.

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