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+/*
+Randomised quick sort implementation in C language.
+In normal quick sort, pivot chosen to partition is either the first or the last element of the array.
+This can take time O(n*n) to sort in the worst case.
+Now in randomised quick sort, pivot is randomly chosen and then recursively sort the left and right sub-arrays.
+The expected running time of the algorithm is O(nlog(n)).
+*/
+#include<stdio.h>
+#include<stdlib.h>
+#include<time.h>
+
+int getBig(int a[], int i, int right, int pivot)
+{
+    for(int k = i; k <= right; k++)
+    {
+        if (a[k] > pivot)
+            return k;
+    }
+    return right+1;
+}
+
+int getSmall(int a[], int j, int left, int pivot)
+{
+    for(int k = j; k >= left; k--)
+    {
+        if (a[k] < pivot)
+            return k;
+    }
+    return -1;
+}
+
+void swap(int *a, int *b)
+{
+    int t = *a;
+    *a = *b;
+    *b = t;
+}
+
+void random_quick(int a[], int left, int right)
+{
+    if (left>=right)
+        return;
+    int index = left + (rand()%(right-left)), i = left, j = right;
+    int pivot_index = index;
+    int pivot = a[index];
+    // storing index of element greater than pivot
+    i = getBig(a, i, right, pivot);
+    // storing index of element smaller than pivot
+    j = getSmall(a, j, left, pivot);
+    while(i <= j)
+    {
+        swap(&a[i], &a[j]);
+        i = getBig(a, i, right, pivot);
+        j = getSmall(a, j, left, pivot);
+    }
+    // after separating the smaller and greater elements, there are 3 cases possible
+    if(pivot_index>j && pivot_index>i)
+    {
+        // case 1. When the pivot element index is greater than both i and j
+        swap(&a[i], &a[pivot_index]);
+        random_quick(a, left, i-1);
+        random_quick(a, i+1, right);
+    }
+    else if (pivot_index<j && pivot_index<i)
+    {
+        // case 2. When the pivot element index is smaller than both i and j
+        swap(&a[j], &a[pivot_index]);
+        random_quick(a, left, j-1);
+        random_quick(a, j+1, right);
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        // the pivot element is at its origin position.
+        random_quick(a, left, pivot_index-1);
+        random_quick(a, pivot_index+1, right);
+    }
+}
+
+int main()
+{
+    srand(time(0)); 
+    int num;
+    scanf("%d", &num);
+    int arr[num];
+    for(int i = 0; i < num; i++)
+    {
+        scanf("%d", &arr[i]);
+    }
+    random_quick(arr, 0, num-1);
+    for(int i = 0; i < num; i++)
+    {
+        printf("%d ", arr[i]);
+    }
+    printf("\n");
+}