Suppose N books of different sizes are placed on a table. You are asked to sort the books so that the books do not fall over easily as illustrated in the figure below. The only thing you are allowed to do is to pull out one book from anywhere in the way as the figure below and put it to place it again. Remember that you have quick eyes, you can immediately determine, which book is the smallest or largest to pull it out.    a) Design an algorithm (a set of steps) to sort the books.  b) This sorting problem is similar to a famous sorting algorithm. What is the name of this algorithm?

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Suppose N books of different sizes are placed on a table. You are asked to sort the books so that the books do not fall over easily as illustrated in the figure below. The only thing you are allowed to do is to pull out one book from anywhere in the way as the figure below and put it to place it again. Remember that you have quick eyes, you can immediately determine, which book is the smallest or largest to pull it out.

  

  1. a) Design an algorithm (a set of steps) to sort the books. 
  2. b) This sorting problem is similar to a famous sorting algorithm. What is the name of this algorithm?
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