Exercise

Correcting a bug in the merge sort algorithm

You have been given a program that sorts a list of numbers using the merge sort algorithm. While testing the merge_sort() function, you realize that the code is not correct. Can you correct the algorithm so that it works correctly?

Instructions

100 XP

Correct the mistake when assigning the left half.
Correct the mistake when assigning the right half.
Correct the mistake when updating the pointer for the left half.
Correct the mistake when updating the pointer for the right half.