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isPalindrome

Language/Type: Java Collections Stacks and Queues
Author: Stuart Reges (on 2014/02/13)

Write a method isPalindrome that takes a Queue of integers as a parameter and that returns whether or not the numbers in the queue represent a palindrome (true if they do, false otherwise). A sequence of numbers is considered a palindrome if it is the same in reverse order. For example, suppose a Queue called q stores this sequence of values: 

        front [3, 8, 17, 9, 17, 8, 3] back

Then the following call: 

        isPalindrome(q)

should return true because this sequence is the same in reverse order. If the list had instead stored these values: 

        front [3, 8, 17, 9, 4, 17, 8, 3] back

the call on isPalindrome would instead return false because this sequence is not the same in reverse order (the 9 and 4 in the middle don't match).

The empty queue should be considered a palindrome. You may not make any assumptions about how many elements are in the queue and your method must restore the queue so that it stores the same sequence of values after the call as it did before.

You are to use one stack as auxiliary storage to solve this problem. You may not use any other auxiliary data structures to solve this problem, although you can have as many simple variables as you like. You also may not solve the problem recursively.

In writing your method, assume that you are using the Stack and Queue interfaces and the ArrayStack and LinkedQueue implementations discussed in lecture.

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