whoops, misunderstood the problem - I thought you meant the sum to the end of the sequence minus the sum to the end. My bad. Please ignore what I wrote above!
On 6 Sep, 01:21, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know you've solved the problem, but I'm bored. Would this work? I > was never good at analysing time constraints > > Given an array > n_1 > n_2 > ... > n_k > > create another array called sums: > n_1 > n_1 + n_2 > n_1 + n_2 + n_3 > n_1 + n_2 + n_3 + ... n_k > > Take two indices min and max > min = 0 max = f; > while max < L { > increment max until sums[max] - sums[min] >= d > if (sums[max - 1] - sums[min]) < f record max and min > increment min > > } > > This will give you longest possible sequences that match the > criteria. Since every subsequence would have match the >d criterion, > you just need to list every subsequence where j>f. > > How does this look? Kinda new at this, so feedback is appreciated. > > On 4 Sep, 03:33, Sticker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a problem on sequences of numbers: > > > Given a sequence of integer numbers (could be quite long, let say, 10s > > of thousands of numbers). Let us denote it as > > {n_1,n_2,n_3,n_4,...,n_L}. The length of the sequence is L (meaning > > that it contains L numbers) > > > >From this sequence I want to find a segment of j consecutive numbers > > > S={n_i,n_(i+1),n_(i+2),...,n_(i+j)} such that the result of maximum > > number of S minus the minimum number of S is smaller than user defined > > d. The length of the segment j has to be larger than another user > > defined f. > > > If there are more than one such segment, find them all. > > > I wonder whether there exists some linear algorithms to handle this > > problem. The solution is better to be quick because it is only a > > subproblem of the complete one and this operation is repeated several > > times. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---