Which of the following statements are true about quick sort
a. it can degrade into an o(n2) sort if the pivot selection scheme is bad
b. it doesnt require additional memory that merges sort does
c. all other answers
d. in practice it can be transfer than merge sort

Select the correct answer. sean is a computer programmer. he has programmed an application for toddlers that plays nursery rhymes. however, a logic error has occurred in the program. which problem is a likely consequence of the error? a. the program crashes every time the user wants to play the nursery rhymes. b. the program crosses its buffer boundaries and overwrites an adjacent program. c. the program plays a different nursery rhyme than the one the user intended to play. d. the program shows different structures in its programming language code. e. the program introduces new viruses every time the user plays a nursery rhyme.

When making changes to optimize part of a processor, it is often the case that speeding up one type of instruction comes at the cost of slowing down something else. for example, if we put in a complicated fast floating-point unit, that takes space, and something might have to be moved farther away from the middle to accommodate it, adding an extra cycle in delay to reach that unit. the basic amdahl's law equation does not take into account this trade-off. a. if the new fast floating-point unit speeds up floating-point operations by, on average, 2ă—, and floating-point operations take 20% of the original program's execution time, what is the overall speedup (ignoring the penalty to any other instructions)? b. now assume that speeding up the floating-point unit slowed down data cache accesses, resulting in a 1.5ă— slowdown (or 2/3 speedup). data cache accesses consume 10% of the execution time. what is the overall speedup now? c. after implementing the new floating-point operations, what percentage of execution time is spent on floating-point operations? what percentage is spent on data cache accesses?

What is the error in the following pseudocode? module main() call raisetopower(2, 1.5) end module module raisetopower(real value, integer power) declare real result set result = value^power display result end module