Hi Rohit,

Can you explain your approach a bit more?

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Rohit Saraf
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Why not just change the definition of when one number is bigger than another
> and do normal sort ?
> I guess that is better and simpler.
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>
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Anurag Sharma <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Keep 2 pointers 'start' and 'end' and make them point to start and
>> beginning of the array.
>>
>> Now keep decresing end pointer until an odd element is found
>> Keep increasing the start pointer until an even element is found
>> swap the elements at start and end
>> Continue the above 3 steps till start<end
>>
>> Now the start/end points to a border element which divides the array in 2
>> parts, 1st have having all odd numbers and 2nd half with all even numbers.
>>
>> Now use any inplace sorting algorithm to sort in descending order the
>> portion containing all odd numbers and in increasing order the portion
>> containing all  even numbers.
>> Hope its clear.
>>
>> Anurag Sharma
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:15 AM, vijay <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>  There is an array of odd and even numbers. Now, sort them in such a
>>> way that the top portion of the array contains odd numbers, bottom
>>> portion contains even numbers. The odd numbers are to be sorted in
>>> descending order and the even numbers in ascending order. You are not
>>> allowed to use any extra array and it has to use a conventional
>>> sorting mechanism and should not do any pre or post processing
>>>
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