I know this is kind of stupid but I was trying to implement quicksort in Python and it runs into an infinite loop can anyone tell me what's wrong??The partition subroutine works perfectly....The error is in quicksort..Here's the code
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Top Newest@Thaddeus Abiy @Ammar Fathin Sabili @Trevor B. Please help!!CS is one of the subjects that I study the most but failing such a trivial and known question today is driving me mad!
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I am reasonably sure that this is what would work. @josh silverman, can you confirm?
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Fixed!!Thanks a lot.....It feels so frustrated to do stupid mistakes on a known problem............
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