Write a program to implement the following strategy for multiplying two

Chapter 5, Problem 5.13

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Write a program to implement the following strategy for multiplying two sparsepolynomials P1, P2 of size M and N, respectively. Each polynomial is represented asa linked list of objects consisting of a coefficient and an exponent (Exercise 3.12).We multiply each term in P1 by a term in P2 for a total of MN operations. Onemethod is to sort these terms and combine like terms, but this requires sortingMN records, which could be expensive, especially in small-memory environments.Alternatively, we could merge terms as they are computed and then sort the result.a. Write a program to implement the alternative strategy.b. If the output polynomial has about O(M + N) terms, what is the running timeof both methods?

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