1. Homework 1                        Assigned on: 09-17-02                           Due by: 09-24-02

           Solve problems 2.3, 2.9  and 2.11 from Chapter 2 of the textbook.

    2.   Homework 2                         Assigned on: 09-26-02                           Due by: 10-03-02

           Solve problems 4.6,4.7,4.11 and 4.12 from Chapter 4 of the textbook.

    3.   Homework 3                         Assigned on: 10-10-02                           Due by: 10-17-02

            Problems  3.1,3.3 and 3.4 from Chapter 3 of the textbook.

;   4.   Homework 4                         Assigned on: 11-22-02                           Due by: 12-3-02

            Solve Problems 6.5,6.11 and 6.22 from Chapter 6 of the textbook.

            Solve Problems 9.1, and 9.3 from Chapter 9 of the textbook.

            6-5 (hint: assume that the number of elements is n and that elements merged at the kth stage,

                     with sub-sequence size 2^k, correspond to wires whose binary representation have the

                     same (log n - k) most significant bits),

            6-11 (hint: a direct analogy to the hypercube implementation may not be possible),

            9-1 (hint: the problem size can be increased by increasing the capacity c).