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Rest been defined as a constant
Explain why rest could have been defined as a constant in the algorithm shown in Figure 1.
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- 1 Explains that rest remains unchanged after initialization.
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rest could be a constant because its value is set once and does not change while the algorithm runs.
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It is assigned near the start of the algorithm.
A starting assignment alone is not enough; the reason is that the value is not changed afterwards.