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The Odd-Even Library

A librarian wants to reorder a list of book ID numbers. All even-numbered IDs must appear first, sorted in ascending order. Following all even IDs, all odd-numbered IDs must appear, sorted in descending order. Input Format: Line 1: An integer N. Line 2: N space-separated integers representing book IDs. Output Format: A single line of space-separated integers in the required order. Example: Input: 5 1 2 3 4 5 Output: 2 4 5 3 1

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parityconditional logic

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