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>>Notice that the quicksort<br>>>function makes calls to<br>>>itself passing in arguments that are not<br>>>sub-components of the original input.<br><br>Hm...It's true that the main function doesn't conform to the usual recipe, but the auxiliaries do, right? I understand the rolling-ball and gcd examples, but this one still eludes me....<br>                                            </body>
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