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Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

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project_root/ │ ├── src/ │ ├── algorithms/ # Sorting Algorithm Implementations │ │ ├── quick_sort.py │ │ ├── merge_sort.py │ │ ├── heap_sort.py │ │ └── radix_sort.py │ │ │ ├── log ...