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Book Edition Search

A bookstore maintains a sorted array of unique edition identifiers for their books. Write a program that finds the index of a specified edition ID. If the edition ID does not exist, return the index where it can be inserted to maintain the sorted order. Input Format: - The first line contains a space-separated list of integers (edition IDs). - The second line contains a single integer (target edition ID). Output Format: - A single integer representing the index of the target or the position to insert it. Example: Input: 101 102 103 104 105 102 Output: 1

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