Write a function named printtriangle that receives a parameter that holds a non-negative integer value and prints a triangle of asterisks as follows: first a line of n asterisks, followed by a line of n-1 askterisks, and then a line of n-2 asterisks, and so on.

It is not a good idea in a cover letter to mention another person whom the employer knows.

)a grad student comes up with the following algorithm to sort an array a[1..n] that works by first sorting the first 2/3rds of the array, then sorting the last 2/3rds of the (resulting) array, and finally sorting the first 2/3rds of the new array. 1: function g-sort(a, n) . takes as input an array of n numbers, a[1..n] 2: g-sort-recurse(a, 1, n) 3: end function 4: function g-sort-recurse(a, `, u) 5: if u ⒠` ≤ 0 then 6: return . 1 or fewer elements already sorted 7: else if u ⒠` = 1 then . 2 elements 8: if a[u] < a[`] then . swap values 9: temp ↠a[u] 10: a[u] ↠a[`] 11: a[`] ↠temp 12: end if 13: else . 3 or more elements 14: size ↠u ⒠` + 1 15: twothirds ↠d(2 ◠size)/3e 16: g-sort-recurse(a, `, ` + twothirds ⒠1) 17: g-sort-recurse(a, u ⒠twothirds + 1, u) 18: g-sort-recurse(a, `, ` + twothirds ⒠1) 19: end if 20: end function first (5 pts), prove that the algorithm correctly sorts the numbers in the array (in increasing order). after showing that it correctly sorts 1 and 2 element intervals, you may make the (incorrect) assumption that the number of elements being passed to g-sort-recurse is always a multiple of 3 to simplify the notation (and drop the floors/ceilings).

Write a function balancechemical to balance chemical reactions by solving a linear set of equations. the inputs arguments are: reagents: symbols of reagents in string row array products: symbols of products in string row array elements: elements in the reaction in string row array elcmpreag: elemental composition of reactants in two dimensional numeric array elcmpprdcts: elemental composition of prducts in two dimensional numeric array hint: the first part of the problem is setting up the set of linear equations that should be solve. the second part of the problem is to find the integers from the solution. one way to do this is to mulitiply the rational basis for the nullspace by increasing larger integers until both the left-and right-side integers exist. for example, for the reaction that involves reacting with to produce and : reagents=["ch4", "o2"]; products =["co2", "h2o"]; elements =["c","h", "o"] elcmpreag=[1,4,0;