Dequeue operation

The dequeue operation is used to delete the elements from the queue in the order of items added. New elements added to our queue end up in the inbound_stack. Instead of removing elements from the inbound_stack, we shift our attention to another stack, that is, outbound_stack. We shall delete the elements from our queue only through the outbound_stack.

To understand how outbound_stack can be used to delete the items from the queue, let us consider the following example.

Initially, our inbound_stack was filled with the elements 5, 6, and 7, as shown in the following diagram:

We first check if the outbound_stack is empty or ...

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