It is indeed an elegant interview question with respect to hiring for designing the systems.It was asked when I was interviewed for the final rounds of on-site interview at Google.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Tech Id <tech.login....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ashish, > > Your algo does not have a chance for jump_back. > This may be required for certain cases, especially when multiple cars > are running on one lane. > > My solution was for one car on one lane, hence car_times[i] gives the > car in i-th lane will take to hit the path frog is trying to cross. > It should not be too difficult to put multiple cars on single lane in > my algo. > > Actually, from a game perspective, the problem can have many parts > like: > speed of cars vary, > frog can move sideways too instead of vertically on the road. > frog can make upto m jumps > etc etc. > > Regards > Techie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<algogeeks%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > > -- Regards, Ashish -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.