Express a Brute-Force Algorithm That Finds the Second Largest Element

question 52

Essay

Express a brute-force algorithm that finds the second largest element in a list a1, a2, . . . , an (n ≥ 2) of distinct integers by finding the largest element, placing it at the beginning of the sequence, then finding the largest element of the remaining sequence.

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