Show that if all the comparators between 4th and 5th wires are removed from the sorting network, then the resulting network would not be a sorting network.

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Section9.6: Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems By The Branch-and-bound Method
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Show that if all the comparators between 4th and 5th wires are removed from the sorting network, then the resulting network would not be a sorting network.  

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