Consider GCET’s central library where the librarian Mario is required to sort the books before closing each day. The library has long shelves, and the books are numbered through 1 to N, the librarian wishes to arrange the books so that they appear in the sequence 1,2, …, N. He intends to do this by a sequence of moves. In each move Mario can pick up any book and insert it at a different place. Let he has 5 books and they are initially arranged in the order: 1 4 5 3 2 Mario will rearrange this in ascending order by first moving book 2 to the beginning of the shelf to get : 1 2 4 5 3 Then moving book 3 to position 3, he gets 1 2 3 4 5 You are required to write a program for Mario that determines the minimum number of moves that are necessary to sort the bookshelf.   C programming, please solve with full answer and solve with Flowchart and Discription

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Consider GCET’s central library where the librarian Mario is required to sort the
books before closing each day. The library has long shelves, and the books are
numbered through 1 to N, the librarian wishes to arrange the books so that they appear
in the sequence 1,2, …, N.
He intends to do this by a sequence of moves. In each move Mario can pick up any
book and insert it at a different place. Let he has 5 books and they are initially arranged
in the order: 1 4 5 3 2
Mario will rearrange this in ascending order by first moving book 2 to the beginning
of the shelf to get : 1 2 4 5 3
Then moving book 3 to position 3, he gets 1 2 3 4 5
You are required to write a program for Mario that determines the minimum number
of moves that are necessary to sort the bookshelf.

 

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