Given an unordered sequence S of n comparable elements, describe a lineartime method for finding the [n ] items whose rank in an ordered version of S is closest to that of the median.

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Given an unordered sequence S of n comparable elements, describe a lineartime method for finding the [√n ] items whose rank in an ordered version of S is closest to that of the median.

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