Consider the following variant of the findIndex method of the SortedTableMap class, originally given in Code Fragment 10.11:

Does this always produce the same result as the original version? Justify your answer.

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private int findlndex(K key, int low, int high) { if (high < low) return high + 1; int mid = (low + high) / 2; if (compare(key, table.get(mid)) < 0) return findlndex(key, low, mid – 1); else 1 2 3 4 5 6. return findlndex(key, mid + 1, high); } 8.