Please help with completing code for JAVA using intellij IDEA.

Need to write a divide and conquer generic function to find the smallest element in an array.

Code should split the array in half and recursively find the smallest of each side, then return the smallest of the two values.

The program should count the number of comparisons made and output it to the screen.

Here is the program outline so far:

import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.*; public class HW13 { /** counter for the number of comparisons made inside the method smallest() */ static int comparisonCount=0; /** * Finds the smallest value in an array of Comparable objects * @param list the array to be searched of type  * @param start starting index to search for the smallest * @param stop stoping index to search for the smallest * @return the smallest value of type  * * This function recursively divides the array in half and findest the smallest value in each half. * It then returns the smallest of the two values. */ public static > E smallest(E[] list,int start, int stop) { // Your code HERE } /** * The initial call to smallest which calls the recursive version * @param list the array of type  to be searched * @return the smallest value in list * * This routine also displays the number of comparisons made inside the recursive smallest() call. */ public static > E smallest(E[] list) { comparisonCount=0; E result=smallest(list,0,list.length-1); System.out.printf("\tSearching %d numbers used %d comparisons ",list.length,comparisonCount); return result; } public static void main (String s[]) { Integer iArray[]={10,11,20,-5,23,64,210,8,9,20,19,5,-94,-5,56,23}; Double dArray[]={19.2,1.1,2.5,-291.3,-312.1,81.23,99.57}; Long lArray[]={10L,200L,-124L,300L,123L,-39L,1234567890000000L,2L,3L,6L,9L,21L,24L}; Integer trouble[] ={1001}; System.out.printf("Smallest of %s is %d ",Arrays.toString(iArray),smallest(iArray)); System.out.printf("Smallest of %s is %f ",Arrays.toString(dArray),smallest(dArray)); System.out.printf("Smallest of %s is %d ",Arrays.toString(lArray),smallest(lArray)); System.out.printf("Smallest of %s is %d ",Arrays.toString(trouble),smallest(trouble)); } }