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A file of 8192 blocks is to be sorted with an available buffer space of 64 blocks. How many passes will be needed to sort and merge if you use:

a. two-way merge using minimal buffers

b. two-way merge using maximal buffers

c. best possible multiway sort-merge algorithm

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