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I have been reading very good reviews of the books by Jon Bentley :
Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)
More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder.
I know that these books have been out there for a long time and I feel bad that I haven't read either one . But it is always better late than never…
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Hi.. Is there a place where I can find the solutions to the 'Programming Pearls' book by Jon Bentley ? I need to verify what ever little exercise problems I solve.. Thank you ..
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Jon Bentley in Column 1 of his book programming pearls introduces a technique for sorting a sequence of non-zero positive integers using bit vectors. 
I have taken the program bitsort.c from here and pasted it below:
/* Copyright (C) 1999 Lucent Technologies */
/* From 'Programming Pearls' by Jon…
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Hello, is it just me or this code in Programming Pearls is wrong (quicksort wants 2 const voids, no?) If so, is my solution right? Apologies, just learning...
int wordncmp(char *p, char* q)
{   int n = k;
    for ( ; *p == *q; p++, q++)
    	if (*p == 0 && --n == 0)
    		return 0;
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hi suppose i   have following array
int a[]=new int[]{55,41,59,26,53,58,97,93};
   i want to partition it around   55 so new array will be such
} 41,26,53,55,59,58,93,93};
i have done such kinds of problems myself but this is from programming pearls and here code is like this    we have some array[a…
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